Main description:

This book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or her socio-cultural world. Memory is approached as a functional adaption to the environment using the resources of the past in preparation for action in the present. Imagination is tightly related to memory in that both aim to escape the confines of the concrete here-and-now situation; however, while memory is primarily oriented to the past, imagination looks to the future. Both are embedded in the exchanges with the social and cultural milieu, and thus theorizing them has relied on key ideas from Lev Vygotsky, Frederic Bartlett and Mikhail Bakhtin.

Thus, this book aims to integrate theories of remembering and imagining, through rich empirical studies

in diverse cultural settings and
concerning the development of self and identity. These two groups of studies compose the subparts that organize the book.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction - Memory and imagination as meaning-making processes: A hint for a continuous dialogue

Maria C.D.P. Lyra - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Brady Wagoner - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

Alicia Barreiro - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Subpart 1: Imagination and remembering in cultural settings

Chapter 1. 2: The dynamics between remembering and imagining in school transitions: A study on fictional narratives

Graciana Azevedo - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Maria Claudia Oliveira - Universidade de Brasilia (UnB), Brazil

Giuseppina Marsico - Salerno University, Italy /Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

Chapter 1. 3: Imagining and remembering in an educational context: An exploratory study

Karina Moutinho - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Taciana Feitosa - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Candy E. Marques-Laurendon - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Chapter 1. 4.: The microgenetic analysis of remembering and imagining in the process of learning scientific concepts

Joao T. R. Silva - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE),campus Caruaru, Brazil

Maria C.D.P. Lyra - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Brady Wagoner - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

Chapter 1. 5.: Remembering and forgetting: A crossroad between personal and collective experience

Alicia Barreiro - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Inga Endsleff - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

Chapter 1. 5.: Remembering and forgetting: A crossroad between personal and collective experience

Marina A. Pinheiro - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Jandson Ferreira da Silva - Instituto Federal do Ceara, Brazil

Luca Tateo - University of Oslo, Norway and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Subpart 2: Self-development and Identity Construction

Chapter 2. 7.: Constructing continuity after ruptures:

The role of "anticipatory recognition" in children's self development

Monica Roncancio-Moreno - Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

Elsa de Mattos - Universidade Catolica do Salvador, Bahia/Brasil

Chapter 2. 8.: Dynamics between past, present and future: the role of constructive imagination in a musician-teacher's life trajectory

Angela Branco - Universidade de Brasilia (UnB), Brazil

Tatiana Valerio - Instituto Federal de Pernambuco, Campus Belo Jardim, Brazil

Chapter 2. 9.: Being in the world; the ACT of making and striking out personal self-constructions

Elisa Krause-Kjaer - associate researcher at Aalborg University Denmark and psychologist at Educational Psychological Services (EPS), Denmark

Chapter 2. 10.: Co-constructing the past and the future in times of uncertainty. Students' positions during the Brazilian teachers' strike in 2012

Gabriel Fortes Cavalcanti de Macedo - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

Ignacio Bresco de Luna (Aalborg University) - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Espana