The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination
Published on 2. May 2013
Book
Hardback
608 pages
978-0-19-539576-1 (ISBN)
Description
Children are widely celebrated for their imaginations, but developmental research on this topic has often been fragmented or narrowly focused on fantasy. However, there is growing appreciation for the role that imagination plays in cognitive and emotional development, as well as its link with children's understanding of the real world. With their imaginations, children mentally transcend time, place, and/or circumstance to think about what might have been, plan and anticipate the future, create fictional relationships and worlds, and consider alternatives to the actual experiences of their lives.
The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination provides a comprehensive overview of this broad new perspective by bringing together leading researchers whose findings are moving the study of imagination from the margins of mainstream psychology to a central role in current efforts to understand human thought. The topics covered include fantasy-reality distinctions, pretend play, magical thinking, narrative, anthropomorphism, counterfactual reasoning, mental time travel, creativity, paracosms, imaginary companions, imagination in non-human animals, the evolution of imagination, autism, dissociation, and the capacity to derive real life resilience from imaginative experiences. Many of the chapters include discussions of the educational, clinical, and legal implications of the research findings and special attention is given to suggestions for future research.
The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination provides a comprehensive overview of this broad new perspective by bringing together leading researchers whose findings are moving the study of imagination from the margins of mainstream psychology to a central role in current efforts to understand human thought. The topics covered include fantasy-reality distinctions, pretend play, magical thinking, narrative, anthropomorphism, counterfactual reasoning, mental time travel, creativity, paracosms, imaginary companions, imagination in non-human animals, the evolution of imagination, autism, dissociation, and the capacity to derive real life resilience from imaginative experiences. Many of the chapters include discussions of the educational, clinical, and legal implications of the research findings and special attention is given to suggestions for future research.
Reviews / Votes
This book should be in the libraries of clinicians and researchers who are interested in cognition and the fantasy world of children. * Doody's Notes *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Developmental, educational, clinical psychologists as well as cognitive scientists, realigion academics and philosophers
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 257 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1202 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-539576-1 (9780195395761)
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Marjorie Taylor
The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination
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04/2013
OUP USA
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Person
Marjorie Taylor, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.
Content
Part One: Introduction ; 1. Transcending Time, Place, and Circumstance: An Introduction to This Volume ; Marjorie Taylor ; 2. Historical Overview of Research on Imagination in Children ; Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer ; Part Two: Fantasy-Reality Distinctions ; 3. Fairy Tales, History, and Religion ; Paul L. Harris ; 4. Magical Thinking ; Karl S. Rosengren and Jason French ; 5. Beliefs in Magical Beings and Cultural Myths ; Jacqueline D. Woolley and Chelsea A. Cornelius ; 6. Distinguishing Imagination From Reality ; Deena Skolnick Weisberg ; 7. Children's Source Monitoring of Memories for Imagination ; Mary Ann Foley ; 8. Suggestibility and Imagination in Early Childhood ; Nathalie Carrick, Elizabeth Rush, and Jodi A. Quas ; 9. Child witnesses and imagination: Lying, Hypothetical Reasoning, and Referential Ambiguity ; Thomas D. Lyon ; 10. Fictional Worlds, the Neuroscience of the Imagination, and Childhood Education ; Angeline S. Lillard ; Part Three: Pretend Play and Narrative ; 11. Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination ; Stephanie M. Carlson and Rachel E. White ; 12. The Distinction between Role Play and Object Substitution in Pretend Play ; Alison B. Shawber-Sachet and Candice M. Mottweiler ; 13. How Do Children Represent Pretense? ; Ori Friedman ; 14. Culture, Narrative, and Imagination ; Elaine Reese ; 15. Flux and Flow in Children's Narratives ; Susan Engel ; 16. Pretend Play as Culturally Constructed Activity ; Suzanne Gaskins ; Part Four: Imagining the Self and Other ; 17. Imaginary Relationships ; Tracy R. Gleason ; 18. Imagining Other Minds: Anthropomorphism is Hair Triggered but not Hare Brained ; Adam Waytz, Nadav Klein, and Nicholas Epley ; 19. Imagination and the Self ; Chris Moore and John Barresi ; Part Five: Mental Time Travel, Counterfactual Thinking, and Causality ; 20. Future Thinking in Young Children ; Cristina M. Atance and Jennifer L. Metcalf ; 21. Counterfactuals and Reality ; Sarah R. Beck and Kevin J. Riggs ; 22. Causality and Imagination ; Caren M. Walker and Alison Gopnik ; 23. What Children Understand about the Flow of Mental Life ; Anne O. Eisbach ; Part Six: Creativity ; 24. Imagination and Personal Creativity ; Mark A. Runco and Jeremy Pina ; 25. Individual Differences in the Development of Social Creativity ; Christophe Mouchiroud and Franck Zenasni ; 26. The Relationship between Pretend Play and Creativity ; Eva V. Hoff ; 27. The Creation of Imaginary Worlds ; Michele M. Root-Bernstein ; 28. The Influence of Television, Video Games, and the Internet on Children's Creativity ; Sandra L. Calvert and Patti M. Valkenburg ; Part Seven: Comparative Issues ; 29. On the Evolution of Imagination and Design ; Thomas Suddendorf and Andy Dong ; 30. The Comparative Study of Imagination ; Robert W. Mitchell ; Part Eight: Clinical Issues ; 31. Imagination and Dissociation Across the Lifespan ; Kathryn A. Becker-Blease ; 32. The Development of Imagination in Children with Autism ; Fiona J. Scott ; 33. The Role of Pretend Play in Child Psychotherapy ; Sandra W. Russ and Karla K. Fehr ; 34. Imagination-based Interventions with Children ; Jana Porat and Avi Sadeh ; 35. Telling stories: Accessing Narrative Imagination for use in Assessment with Clinical and Typical Populations ; Miriam Steele ; 36. Imagination and Coping with Chronic Illness ; Cindy Dell Clark ; Part Nine: Conclusion ; 37. Looking ahead: Some Thoughts about Future Directions ; Marjorie Taylor