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Zittoun, Tania

Nom
Zittoun, Tania
Affiliation principale
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Professeure ordinaire
Email
tania.zittoun@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/110
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0000-0003-3203-2819

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  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Memory in life transitions
    (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
    de Saint Laurent, Constance 
    ;
    Zittoun, Tania 
    ;
    Wagoner, B
    This chapter explores the transformation of autobiographical memory in life transitions. To do so, it proposes a model of autobiographical memory as an oriented sociocultural act, whereby the person imaginatively distances herself from past experiences to produce a meaningful discourse on her past. This model is applied to the development of autobiographical memory during adolescence, a crucial period in this regard, and is used to analyze a series of longitudinal documentaries on teenagers in Switzerland. Based on two case studies, it is argued that adolescents learn to make sense of their past by building on previous recalls of their experiences, successively reworking their interpretation of what happened. As they discover new concepts, interlocutors, and cultural tools, they learn to distance themselves from their experiences to produce stories that are meaningful for their present selves, which they can share with others, and that can be turned into lessons to be learned.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Life-creativity: Imagining one’s life
    (Hove/New York: Routledge, 2015)
    Zittoun, Tania 
    ;
    de Saint Laurent, Constance 
    ;
    Glaveanu, Vlad Petr
    ;
    Gillespie, Alex
    ;
    Valsiner, Jaan
    How people become unique persons is an ever-renewed puzzle for any observer of human life. Somehow, in the complex sets of social and cultural constraints that reduce margins of freedom, each person is actually the author of his or her life. Each trajectory is unique, and can be recognized by its specific melody (Zittoun et al., 2013). This uniqueness, we propose, can be seen as resulting from lifecreativity, the process of creating one’s life-paths. To better understand it, we will first examine the relation between creativity and development, then propose to consider imagination as the heart of the creative process. We will treat imagination as a three-dimensional developmental process, and define the conditions under which it might be acknowledged as creativity. The case study of Rachel, going through her teenager years, will ground our proposition and further discussion. This exploration, we hope, will contribute to our understanding of the developmental aspects of creativity.