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Zittoun, Tania
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Zittoun, Tania
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- 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.
- PublicationAccès libreExperience on the Edge: Theorizing LiminalityLiminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures. In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces of transition, indefiniteness, ambiguity, play and creativity. Thus, it is an indispensable concept and a necessary counterweight to the overemphasis on structural influences on human behavior. This book aims to use the concept of liminality to develop a culturally and experientially sensitive psychology. This is accomplished by first setting out an original theoretical framework focused on understanding the ‘liminal sources of cultural experience,’ and second an application of concept to a number of different domains, such as tourism, pilgrimage, aesthetics, children’s play, art therapy, and medical diagnosis. Finally, all these domains are then brought together in a concluding commentary chapter that puts them in relation to an overarching theoretical framework. This book will be useful for graduate students and researchers in cultural psychology, critical psychology, psychosocial psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology, anthropology and the social sciences, cultural studies among others.
- PublicationAccès libreLa fabrique de l'intégration(Lausanne: Antipodes, 2020)
; ; ; - PublicationAccès libreImagination in Human and Cultural DevelopmentThis book positions imagination as a central concept which increases the understanding of daily life, personal life choices, and the way in which culture and society changes. Case studies from micro instances of reverie and daydreaming, to utopian projects, are included and analysed. The theoretical focus is on imagination as a force free from immediate constraints, forming the basis of our individual and collective agency. In each chapter, the authors review and integrate a wide range of classic and contemporary literature culminating in the proposal of a sociocultural model of imagination. The book takes into account the triggers of imagination, the content of imagination, and the outcomes of imagination. At the heart of the model is the interplay between the individual and culture; an exploration of how the imagination, as something very personal and subjective, grows out of our shared culture, and how our shared culture can be transformed by acts of imagination. Imagination in Human and Cultural Development offers new perspectives on the study of psychological learning, change, innovation and creativity throughout the lifespan. The book will appeal to academics and scholars in the fields of psychology and the social sciences, especially those with an interest in development, social change, cultural psychology, imagination and creativity.
- PublicationAccès libreHuman development in the lifecourse. Melodies of living(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
; - PublicationAccès libreInsertions. A quinze ans, entre échecs et apprentissage. [Insertions. Being fifteen, from failure to apprenticeship]Que peut faire une personne de quinze ans non promue a la fin de l’école obligatoire ? A quelles conditions une année scolaire de la - dernière chance - peut-elle lui permettre de commencer une formation professionnelle ? Pourquoi un jeune traite comme - mauvais élève - pendant toute sa scolarité s'engagerait-il dans une année d’école supplémentaire ? Ce livre documente un dispositif d'insertion - de la dernière chance - qui a eu des résultats étonnants: après une année, 80% des élèves qui y passent trouvent une place d'apprentissage et y restent. Pour comprendre l’efficacité de cette formation, l'auteur montre comment les propriétés d'un dispositif peuvent répondre aux besoins spécifiques de jeunes personnes: Comment un cadre pédagogique peut-il soutenir l’identité du jeune ? En quoi les échanges entre formateurs peuvent-il aider le jeune a prendre conscience de ses compétences ? Comment les enseignants peuvent-ils faciliter la reconnaissance de leurs élèves par les employeurs ? Cet ouvrage analyse un dispositif visant a aider des jeunes a changer et a trouver leur place dans le monde du travail. Il met en évidence le rôle de formateurs constituant des équipes médiatrices. Il propose ainsi des outils pour mieux comprendre les dispositifs de formation et d'accompagnement des transitions de jeunes personnes.
- PublicationAccès libreTransitions. Development through symbolic resourcesWhat do young people do with the novels they read, the films they see, the music they hear and sing? How do these cultural products act as 'symbolic resources' in the process of development? And what can we, as researchers, learn by studying people's uses of fiction? This monograph approaches development through the study of transitions and the processes of exploration that follow ruptures in people's lives. Specifically, it examines young people's symbolic responsibility as they have to choose among the wide range of cultural products societies exposes them to. The book thus examines the books, films and music that young people mobilize when they need to redefine their identity, learn informal know-how, or have to confer meaning to what happens to them in transitions. The book has a theoretical scope. It draws on cultural psychology and psychoanalysis to formulate the importance of semiotic mediation in thinking, feeling and acting. Its main contribution is to propose a model for analyzing uses of symbolic resources, such as books and films, in everyday life. It thus shows how uses of symbolic resources can enable new forms of experiences and conduct. It finally highlights social and personal conditions that might facilitate or hinder developmental uses of symbolic resources. The book, based on in-depth case studies, is addressed to scholars, professional and students in the fields of youth, culture and the media, cultural and developmental psychology, and life-long education.
- PublicationAccès libreDonner la vie, choisir un nom : engendrements symboliquesAu travers des procédures de choix de prénoms, ce livre examine les ressources symboliques - les traditions religieuses et culturelles, mais aussi les livres, les films, les chansons - que de futurs parents ont mobilisées durant les neuf mois de cette transition vers la parentalité. Ainsi, en faisant usage de ressources symboliques, de futurs parents font plus que de mettre au monde un enfant : ils engendrent la nébuleuse symbolique qui l'accueillera, et que le prénom cristallise ; mais aussi, peut-être s'engendrent-ils eux-mêmes.