Imagining one's life: Imagination, transitions and developmental trajectories
| Abstract |
Life is not a quite river; it is exposed to curves, torrents,
unpredicted turns and sometimes freezes... Sociocultural psychology
gives us tool to analyze the diversity of life trajectories, and
especially, the dynamics of transitions that offer occasions for
learning and development after ruptures. To understand how new
learning, new identities, or new life directions might emerge, it
is very interesting to examine imagination. Imagination is the
dynamic by which people leave the constraint of the here-and-now,
and explore the past, the future and possible alternatives. A
deeply social and cultural process, it is therefore the dynamic by
which each person can define, alone and with others, his or her
unique trajectory. Hence, through a theoretical exploration and
empirical examples takes from a wide range of situations, I hope to
indicate possible ways to understand and support human
development. |
| Keywords |
Imagination, developpement, transition, lifecouese |
| Citation | Zittoun, T. (2015, 16 May). Imagining one's life: Imagination, transitions and developmental trajectories. Paper presented at CONSPI 2015, Salvador, Brasil. |
| Type | Conference paper (English) |
| Editor | Sonia Maria Guedes Gondim, Ilka Dias Bichara |
| Name of conference | CONSPI 2015 (Salvador, Brasil) |
| Date of conference | 16-5-2015 |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal de Bahia |
| Pages | 127-153 |
| URL | http://doc.rero.ch/record/257860?ln=fr |
| Related project | Imagination |