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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.


Contents:

1. Imagination at the Frontiers of Cultural Psychology
Tania Zittoun and Vlad Gl&aveanu

SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS
2. The Philosophy of Imagination
Dorthe Jorgensen

3. Roots of Creativity: Variability Amplification through Persistent Imitation
Jaan Valsiner

4. Creative Imagination
Vlad Petre Gl&aveanu , 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&aveanu

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 Markova

CONCLUSION
16. The Future of Imagination in Sociocultural Research
Vlad Gl&aveanu and Tania Zittoun


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780190468729
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Publication date: November, 2017
Pages: 376
Dimensions: 156.00 x 235.00 x 22.00
Weight: 556g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Counselling & Therapy
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