A Lifetime of Communication

Through the lens of a relational and dialogic perspective, the reader will follow one child from cradle to grave, through acquiring the means to communicate, to forming and developing through relationships, to building human cognitive processes, and to u

Julie Yingling

Contents: Series Foreword. Preface. Developmental Processes: A Brief Theoretical History. Infant Development: Biological Endowments and Beyond. Cocreating Self and Other: Influence and Reciprocity in the First 2 Years. Creating a Mind: Dialogue in Symbols. Early Relationships: Knowing the Other. Childhood: Negotiating Competence Between Self and Other. Adolescence: Flowers of Maturation, Seeds of Dialectics. The College Years: Rhetorical Challenges at the Boundaries. Young Adulthood: Romancing Other and Self. Middle Adulthood: Nurturing and Relinquishing Youth. Older Adulthood: Power in Drawing Together and Falling Apart. Human Communication Futures: Beyond Dualities to Dialogic Consciousness.