Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future

lt;p> Maria C.D.P. Lyra is a Professor of Psychology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is interested in the process of human cultural development, the dynamic features through which human beings faces change and stability throughout their lives. She received her M. A. at Cornell University, U.S.A. and her Ph.D. at São Paulo University, Brazil. She coordinates a research laboratory - LabCCom - dedicated to the study of the process of emergence and development of the subject (self) in and through communication, concentrating on its microgenetic transformations embedded in sociocultural milieu. Culture and sign dynamics are particular relevant to explore diverse themes through reconstructive memory and imagination highlighting the process of internalization/externalization. She co- edited, Determinism and Indeterminism in Developmental and Social Science (Lawrence Welbaum, 1997), Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences (Springer, 2009), Challenges and Strategies for Studying Human Development in Cultural Contexts (Firera & Liuzzo Publishing, 2009)

Chapter 1. Memory and imagination as meaning-making processes: Developmental trajectories of culture in mind.- Part I. Imagination and remembering in cultural settings.- Chapter 2. The dynamics between remembering and imagining in school transitions: A study on fictional narratives.- Chapter 3. Imagining and remembering in an educational context: An exploratory study.- Chapter 4. The microgenetic analysis of remembering and imagining in the process of learning scientific concepts.- Chapter 5. Remembering and forgetting: A crossroad between personal and collective experience.- Chapter 6. The aesthetic experience as a central pathway in understanding memory and imagination - The case of Quilombo Barro Branco.- Part II. Constructing continuity after ruptures: The role of   "anticipatory recognition" in children's self development.- Chapter 7. Constructing continuity after ruptures: The role of   "anticipatory recognition" in children's self development.- Chapter 8.Dynamics between past, present and future: The role of constructive imagination in a Musician-Teacher's life trajectory.- Chapter 9. Being in the world: The ACT of making and striking out personal self-constructions .- Chapter 10. Co-constructing past and future in times of uncertainty. Students' positions during the Brazilian teachers' strike in 2012.