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¹Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. ladogamsakhurdia@gmail.com.

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Summary

Human development is an active, imaginative process where individuals co-construct their selves and environments throughout aging. This life-span development approach emphasizes gradual transformations and the integration of past experiences, akin to migration.

Keywords:

Baltes Cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics Human development Life-span development Migration

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Psychology
Sociology
Gerontology

Background:

The life-span development approach, initially proposed by Baltes (1989) and recently discussed by Greve (2023), frames human development across the entire lifespan.
Existing models often view development as passive adaptation to internal and external changes.

Purpose of the Study:

To advocate for a revised life-span development approach that emphasizes human agentivity and the imaginative co-construction of self and environment.
To highlight the significance of past phenomenological experiences and the irreversibility of development.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis and theoretical argumentation.
Utilizing migration as a central metaphor for understanding the aging process.

Main Results:

Individuals are viewed as historical agents who actively shape their development through gradual, qualitative transformations.
Aging is conceptualized as a process analogous to migration, involving shifts in temporal and social positions.
Both aging and migration foster the integration of past and present experiences, leading to new forms of selfhood.

Conclusions:

The life-span development approach should integrate the concept of agentivity, recognizing individuals as active co-constructors of their lives.
The metaphor of migration effectively illustrates the dynamic and transformative nature of aging and self-construction.
Successful adaptation to aging involves synthesizing past experiences with new realities, fostering personal growth and novel self-understanding.