The authors investigate "the temporal and historical aspects of magination by proposing a life course perspective," and they "examine imagination as it takes place in specific domains of activity or social ettings" (209). Those domains or settings are education, theater, and usic. These richly represent relevant knowledge and conjecture. For anyone interested in these topics from a sociocultural perspective, this book is the place to go.

Autorentext
Tania Zittoun is a sociocultural psychologist interested in the development of people across the course of life. She has studied informal learning and transitions, as well as the role of fiction, art, and religion in life. She works across the boundaries between cultural psychology, psychoanalysis and the social sciences, both theoretically and methodologically. Vlad Glveanu is a creativity researcher and sociocultural psychologist interested in the intersection between creativity and culture. He works in the cultural psychology areas of creativity, societal creativity, craft and materiality, social development, and social representations. His thinking about creativity is informed by pragmatism, dialogism, and distributed by cognition.

Klappentext

The Handbook of Imagination and Culture is a unique interdisciplinary collection of chapters showing the centrality of imagination in the development of persons and societies. This book brings together a group of psychologists, philosophers, social scientists, and artists to explore imagination through psychological, social, and cultural processes.

Inhalt

• 1. Imagination at the Frontiers of Cultural Psychology

• Tania Zittoun and Vlad Gl veanu

• SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS

• 2. The Philosophy of Imagination

• Dorthe Jørgensen

• 3. Roots of Creativity: Variability Amplification through Persistent Imitation

• Jaan Valsiner

• 4. Creative Imagination

• Vlad Petre Gl veanu, Maciej Karwowski, Dorota M. Jankowska, and Constance de Saint-Laurent

• 5. Imagination - Methodological Implications

• Lene Tanggaard and Svend Brinkmann

• SECTION II: IMAGINATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

• 6. Imagination in Children Entering Culture

• Sandra Jovchelovitch, Jacqueline Priego-Hernandez, and Vlad Petre Gl veanu

• 7. Playing and Being - Imagination in the Life Course

• Pernille Hviid and Jacob W. Villadsen

• 8. The Mnemonic Imagination and Second-Generation Migrant Experience

• Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley

• 9. Imagination in Adults and the Aging Person: Possible Futures and Actual Past

• Tania Zittoun and Tatsuya Sato

• SECTION III: FRAMES FOR IMAGINATION

• 10. Imagination In and Beyond Education

• Sanne Akkerman

• 11. Theatre and Imagination to (Re)Discover Reality

• Tania Zittoun and Adeline Rosenstein

• 12. Music and Imagination

• Sven Hroar Klempe

• SECTION IV: IMAGINATION IN SOCIETY, FROM PAST TO FUTURE

• 13. Imagination in Community Engagement

• Colette Daiute

• 14. Imagining the Self through Cultural Technologies

• Alex Gillespie, Kevin Corti, Simon Evans and Brett Heasman

• 15. From Imagination to Well-Controlled Images: Challenge for the Dialogical Mind

• Ivana Marková

• CONCLUSION

• 16. The Future of Imagination in Sociocultural Research

• Vlad Gl veanu and Tania Zittoun