In Search of Integrity
A Life-Journey across Diverse Contexts

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

Robert Serpell (Author)

9781009523844, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 April 2024

104 pages
23.5 x 16 x 1 cm, 0.3 kg

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.

1. Personal development in sociocultural context
2. The intimate family culture of my childhood home
3. Adolescent challenges at boarding school
4. Learning to assume responsibility
5. Responsibilities of parenthood and profession
6. Listening respectfully, connecting locally
7. Intimate family culture and parenting in the USA.
8. Engagement with progressive social change
9. Searching for integrity
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Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]