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 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&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 Marková

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