Mônica Souza Neves-Pereira - Böcker

This book takes an epistemological and theoretical stance in investigating the phenomenon of creativity and its processes. Creativity is analyzed through the lens of cultural psychology, in which psychological processes emerge over the course of life, and can only be understood in relation to the subject’s history and life experiences.

This book takes an epistemological and theoretical stance in investigating the phenomenon of creativity and its processes. Creativity is analyzed through the lens of cultural psychology, in which psychological processes emerge over the course of life, and can only be understood in relation to the subject’s history and life experiences.

This book investigates the creative processes within musical improvisation, combining perspectives from musicology and psychology. Drawing on research results, theoretical analyses, and sociocultural experiences, it discusses a new theoretical and methodological framework to study the actions, processes of self-constitution, musical making, and creativity of improvisers. Its central claims position improvisation as inherently creative due to its production of novelty within performance constraints, driven by unpredictability that demands constant adaptation and expands creative possibilities.Building on an introductory chapter that sets out the interdisciplinary scope of the project –with insights from cultural psychology, performance studies, and musicology– the authors use theoretical frameworks as well as empirical and practice-based research to reframe improvisation as a fundamental site of human creativity, with a particular focus on Brazilian academic contexts. An insightful reflection on the social and political potential of improvisation as a space for navigating uncertainty, embracing the unknown, and fostering collective creation, this book is the perfect read for scholars in cultural and cognitive psychology, music studies, creativity studies, philosophy, and related disciplines.

This book came out as part of the efforts of cultural dialogical psychologists guided to the knowledge construction about the relations between psychology and education. After years of working together, scientists from Brazil, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, among other countries, collaborate to present this book written in Portuguese, due to the relevant contribution of cultural dialogical psychology to the field of education within school contexts. The authors produced theoretical-empirical chapters using a didactical and dialogical language to discuss their ideas and experiences, which compose the field known as the “Cultural Psychology of Education”. Topics such as dialogical practices, democratic values and beliefs and topics concerning education and human development, among others, are therefore analyzed and discussed in order to contribute to the vast field encompassing both developmental psychology and education.