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Melodies of living

About: The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 12 citations till now.
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TL;DR: A developmental view on imagination is proposed: from this perspective, imagination can be seen as triggered by some disrupting event, which generates a disjunction from the person’s unfolding experience of the “real” world, and as unfolding as a loop, which eventually comes back to the actual experience.
Abstract: This paper proposes a developmental view on imagination: from this perspective, imagination can be seen as triggered by some disrupting event, which generates a disjunction from the person's unfolding experience of the "real" world, and as unfolding as a loop, which eventually comes back to the actual experience. Examining recent and classical theorization of imagination in psychology, the paper opposes a deficitary view of imagination to an expansive notion of imagination. The paper explores Piaget, Vygotsky, Harris and Pelaprat & Cole consider: 1) What does provoke a "rupture" or disjunction? 2) What are the psychological processes involved in the imaginary loop? 3) What nourishes such processes? 4) What are the consequences of such imaginary loop, or what does it enable doing? The paper proposes to adopt an expansive view of imagination, as Vygotsky proposed-a perspective that has been under-explored empirically since his seminal work. To stimulate such sociocultural psychology of imagination, two empirical examples are provided, one showing how children make sense of metaphor in an experimental setting, the other showing a young person using a novel met at school as symbolic resource.

114 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of culture for individual development throughout the life span is discussed, focusing on development in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, with emphasis on subjective theories, transmissions of values, and intergenerational relations.
Abstract: This article aims to illustrate the role of culture for individual development throughout the life span. First, theoretical approaches how culture affects the ontogenesis is presented, starting from early anthropological to recent eco-cultural and culture-informed approaches. Then, culture-specific conceptualizations of development over the life span are discussed, focusing on development in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Finally, we concentrate on selected areas of social development and report on recent studies on subjective theories, transmissions of values, and intergenerational relations. These studies are discussed as aspects of a more extended interpersonal relations approach to development within culture. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. This article is available in Online Readings in Psychology and Culture: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/orpc/vol6/iss2/1

34 citations

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Luca Tateo1
TL;DR: In this paper, an international workshop on Vico and imagination took place at Aalborg University in 2014, within a research project on Giambattista Vico, and the epistem...
Abstract: This special issue originates from an international workshop on “Vico and imagination,” that took place at Aalborg University in 2014, within a research project on Giambattista Vico and the epistem...

32 citations


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  • ...Inexplicably, it seems to have been later forgotten for today giving raise again to some interest (Pelaprat & Cole, 2011; Zittoun & Cerchia, 2013; Zittoun et al., 2013)....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the trajectories of food and how culinary practices evolve over time in relation to a migrant's experience, focusing on international mothers adjusting to life in London.
Abstract: This paper explores the trajectories of food and how culinary practices evolve over time in relation to a migrant’s experience. Our focus is on international mothers adjusting to life in London. We identify a connection between eating practices and evolving identities. In line with a stream of research in cultural psychology, we consider food as a symbolic resource mobilized by migrants to provide some material support to their processes of adaptation to a new country. In this respect, we introduce the notion of malleable symbolic resource in order to highlight the ductility of food in relation to an individual’s evolving personal culture. On this basis, we propose to describe ductile trajectories of food in relation to three important steps: where food and eating practices come from; with whom food is consumed and for what goal it is chosen.

30 citations

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Jaan Valsiner1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a general theory that includes coverage of both the real actual and the possible realms of psychological phenomena, and the relationship between the two, and propose a theory for cultural psychology.
Abstract: Cultural psychology is in need for a general theory that includes coverage of both the real actual and the possible realms of psychological phenomena, and of the relationship between the two. The t...

30 citations