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Zittoun, Tania
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Zittoun, Tania
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tania.zittoun@unine.ch
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- PublicationAccès libreThe pleasure of thinking in human development(2024-03-27)Observing children and scientists clearly suggests that people may experience pleasure in thinking. Surprisingly, pleasure is rarely addressed in developmental psychology. The argument of the paper is that pleasure of thinking may play an important role in learning and development; it draws on secondary analysis of existing studies and theoretical work to ground this proposition. The paper first draws on classical observations of young children to highlight five modalities of pleasure in thinking: curiosity, functional pleasure, discovery, dialogical pleasure, and a meta-pleasure. It then examines the becoming of these pleasures during the school years, highlighting the conditions for these pleasures to develop. The paper then suggests that such pleasure can be pursued and cultivated during adulthood. Theoretical and empirical implications are finally highlighted.
- PublicationAccès libreThematic engagements: Affects and learning in older age(2024)
; In this paper, we propose a sociocultural perspective to consider affects in older age. The psychology of learning throughout the whole life course, including in the life of older adults, suggest that affects play an important role. However, developmental psychology has paid little attention to affects in learning and development, and even less to these aspects in older age. We believe that it is important to examine affects in older age because of their centrality in the lifecourse; but how to account for them? We propose the notion of thematic engagement to highlight the role of affects in older persons' learning and development, and to designate transversal and pluri-thematic interests across activities and domains of knowledge, which enable us to show that some topics, domains or interests become more important than others for a given person across time. We base our claims on a longitudinal study of older people engaging in different activities at home, in their neighbourhood, as well as in a daycare centre for older people, and provide three dialogical exemplars. We finally highlight some theoretical and empirical implications of our proposition. - PublicationRestriction temporaireWhat Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement(2024)
; ; ; ; ; Categorising certain forms of human movement as ‘migration’ and others as ‘mobility’ has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration–mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility: continuum (fluid mobilities transform into more stable forms of migration and vice versa), enablement (migration requires mobility, and mobility can trigger migration), hierarchy (migration and mobility are political categories that legitimise hierarchies of movement) and opposition (migration and mobility are pitted against each other). These interplays reveal the normative underpinnings of different categories, which we argue are too often implicit and unacknowledged. - PublicationAccès librePsychology of Change(2024)
- PublicationAccès libreDesigning landscapes of affordances for aging in place(2024)
; ; ; - PublicationAccès libreDéveloppement des personnes «âgées» et transformation des espaces vécus(Neuchâtel: Alphil, 2024)
; ; ; ; ; ; Emmanuel SchwabLa vie quotidienne des personnes âgées se déroule dans des lieux concrets, avec des objets et des propriétés matérielles spécifiques ainsi que des relations sociales particulières. Toutefois, cette sociomatérialité constitutive est plus qu’un décor ou que de simples outils pour l’activité ; nous suggérons ici qu’elle participe de la vie psychique et quotidienne de la personne. Adoptant une perspective de psychologie culturelle du cours de la vie et nous appuyant sur les travaux de Kurt Lewin et de René Kaës, nous proposons de considérer les fonctions de contenance et de transformation des espaces vécus dans le développement des personnes âgées. En nous basant sur une recherche en cours, nous examinerons des transformations de configurations sociomatérielles à trois échelles, et les occasions de remaniement psychique que cela suscite. Nous verrons d’abord comment la vie de quartier ou de village peut soutenir les espaces vécus des personnes ; nous considérerons ensuite la manière dont les personnes peuvent se sentir « chez soi » tout en déménageant, car l’espace vécu peut être réorganisé dans un champ donné ; nous discuterons enfin du rôle d’objets spécifiques dans ces dynamiques. - PublicationAccès libreBook reviews: A dialogical reviewing process(2024)
; Ivana MarkováAs part of a theoretical and friendly dialogue that we have developed over the years (Marková et al., 2020, 2022; Zittoun, 2017), we both realised that our newly published books appeared almost simultaneously at the same publisher (Marková, 2023; Zittoun, 2024). To pursue this dialogue, we proposed to review each other’s book, and we then had a dialogue on these two reviews. The present “dialogical review” has thus three parts: the first part presents some of the points emerging from our dialogue; the second part is the review of Ivana Marková’s The making of a dialogical theory. Social representations and communication (2023) by Tania Zittoun; and the third is the review of Tania Zittoun’s Pleasure of thinking (2024) by of Ivana Marková. - PublicationRestriction temporaireThe Pleasure of ThinkingTania Zittoun demonstrates that there is pleasure in thinking, and that the pleasure of thinking plays a key role in our lives – in the development of children, in learning, in adult life, and in ageing. Drawing on arts and philosophy, exploring research in developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and psychoanalysis, it highlights five modalities of thinking: curiosity, the functional pleasure of pursuing a task, the pleasure of discovery, the dialogical pleasure of thinking with others, and a meta-pleasure. This book proposes a unique integrative model of thinking, conceived as a situated activity, following trajectories that combine modalities of pleasure. Evolving with time, the pleasure of thinking can take place as we reason, make sense, or daydream, at school, at work, when we garden, or do science. Academics and graduate students in sociocultural, critical, developmental, and cognitive psychology will benefit from The Pleasure of Thinking.