Playing and Being: imagination in the life course
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Playing and Being : imagination in the life course. / Hviid, Pernille; Villadsen, Jakob Waag.
Handbook of Imagination & Culture. ed. / Tania Zittoun; Vlad Glaveanu. NY : Oxford University Press, 2017. p. 137 - 166 (Frontiers in Cultural Psychology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Playing and Being
T2 - imagination in the life course
AU - Hviid, Pernille
AU - Villadsen, Jakob Waag
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - In this chapter, we investigate imagination in children’s pretend play in a cultural life course perspective. This perspective underlines the relation between play and the cultivated and personalized life of the players. It points to the processes in which meaning making takes place through play: imaginative playing transcends the immediate context of the play and feeds back to the player as engaged an being-in-the-world with others, contributing to the directionality of the cultural life course on social as well as personal levels. Whereas play is generally recognized as an important developmental vehicle of children, it tends to connote a childish or immature behavior when applied to adult behavior and is often replaced with terms such as “creativity.” We will investigate this relation, partly as a scientific and societal discourse of what it means to be a child or an adult, and partly as a developmental process of imagination.
AB - In this chapter, we investigate imagination in children’s pretend play in a cultural life course perspective. This perspective underlines the relation between play and the cultivated and personalized life of the players. It points to the processes in which meaning making takes place through play: imaginative playing transcends the immediate context of the play and feeds back to the player as engaged an being-in-the-world with others, contributing to the directionality of the cultural life course on social as well as personal levels. Whereas play is generally recognized as an important developmental vehicle of children, it tends to connote a childish or immature behavior when applied to adult behavior and is often replaced with terms such as “creativity.” We will investigate this relation, partly as a scientific and societal discourse of what it means to be a child or an adult, and partly as a developmental process of imagination.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - play
KW - imagination
KW - cultural life course
KW - existence of human beings
KW - pretend play
KW - development
KW - creativity
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780190468712.003.0007
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780190468712.003.0007
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780190468712
T3 - Frontiers in Cultural Psychology
SP - 137
EP - 166
BT - Handbook of Imagination & Culture
A2 - Zittoun, Tania
A2 - Glaveanu, Vlad
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - NY
ER -
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