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In Search of Integrity

A Life-Journey across Diverse Contexts

Robert Serpell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Apr '24

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A cultural psychologist analyses how his perspective relates to his personal life-journey as migrant, as parent and as professional.

This Element shows the author's selected stories from his personal experience that reflect the culture of a particular social group of which he was a member at the time. He discusses how his perspective in cultural psychology relates to his personal life as a migrant and as a parent.This Element traces the origins of an individual's philosophical orientation and the processes by which it was elaborated over the course of his life-journey. The author discusses how selected stories from his personal experience reflect the intimate culture of a particular social group of which he was a participant member at the time. The author's life-journey includes a tumultuous period of emerging adulthood in Singapore and Oxford. Moving to Zambia in 1965 aged 21, he conducted research, teaching and writing including sojourns in England and in Maryland USA. He discusses how his perspective in cultural psychology relates to his personal life as a migrant and as a parent, and to his views on how the world can best address the challenges of cooperative communication in the 2020s.

ISBN: 9781009523820

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 5mm

Weight: 170g

104 pages