Handbook of Imagination and Culture

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 Glăveanu 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.

• 1. Imagination at the Frontiers of Cultural Psychology Tania Zittoun and Vlad Gl&aveanu SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS2. The Philosophy of ImaginationDorthe Jørgensen 3. Roots of Creativity: Variability Amplification through Persistent ImitationJaan Valsiner4. Creative ImaginationVlad Petre Gl&aveanu , Maciej Karwowski, Dorota M. Jankowska, and Constance de Saint-Laurent5. Imagination - Methodological ImplicationsLene Tanggaard and Svend BrinkmannSECTION II: IMAGINATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT6. Imagination in Children Entering Culture Sandra Jovchelovitch, Jacqueline Priego-Hernandez, and Vlad Petre Gl&aveanu7. Playing and Being - Imagination in the Life CoursePernille Hviid and Jacob W. Villadsen8. The Mnemonic Imagination and Second-Generation Migrant Experience Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley9. Imagination in Adults and the Aging Person: Possible Futures and Actual PastTania Zittoun and Tatsuya SatoSECTION III: FRAMES FOR IMAGINATION10. Imagination In and Beyond Education Sanne Akkerman11. Theatre and Imagination to (Re)Discover Reality Tania Zittoun and Adeline Rosenstein12. Music and Imagination Sven Hroar Klempe SECTION IV: IMAGINATION IN SOCIETY, FROM PAST TO FUTURE13. Imagination in Community Engagement Colette Daiute14. Imagining the Self through Cultural TechnologiesAlex Gillespie, Kevin Corti, Simon Evans and Brett Heasman 15. From Imagination to Well-Controlled Images: Challenge for the Dialogical Mind Ivana Marková CONCLUSION16. The Future of Imagination in Sociocultural Research Vlad Gl&aveanu and Tania Zittoun

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.