Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time. Imagination is both extremely personal (for example, people imagine unique futures for themselves) and deeply social, as our
imagination is fed with media and other shared representations.
As a result, imagination occupies a central position within the life of mind and society. Expanding the boundaries of disciplinary approaches, the Handbook of Imagination and Culture expertly illustrates this core role of
imagination in the development of children, adolescents, adults, and older persons today.
Bringing together leading scholars in sociocultural psychology and neighboring disciplines from around the world, this edited volume guides readers towards a much deeper understanding of the
conditions of imagining, its resources, its constraints, and the consequences it has on different groups of people in different domains of society. Summarily, this Handbook places imagination at the center, and offers readers new ways to examine old questions regarding the possibility of change,
development, and innovation in modern society.
1. Imagination at the Frontiers of Cultural Psychology, Tania Zittoun and Vlad Glaveanu
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 Glaveanu, 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 Glaveanu
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 Glaveanu and Tania Zittoun
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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 P. Glaveanu is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at Webster University Geneva.
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