Luca Tateo

University of Oslo · Department of Special Needs Education

This is one of the work I cherish the most. I am trying to elaborate the sense of my theoretical writings on imaginative work as higher mental function, and its epistemological power in constructing the way we experience the world and ourselves.

The ICTs became a hot topic for education of any grade in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving some relevant questions in the background. Homeschooling was adopted during the several lockdowns in different countries revealing the limitations of the current approaches and infrastructures regardless of the country and the school grades. So...

The chapter introduces some relevant facts and memories of Professor Boggi-Cavallo’s life and work. Her professional trajectory is discussed in the context of the Italian and international intellectual and academic contexts. The overview of the book is described, and the different themes are presented and interconnected.KeywordsHistory of ideasCult...

Background: Scandinavian education systems are recognized as being particularly inclusive. Nevertheless, an inclusive approach to education risks adopting a patronizing attitude that silences the voices of the very people who should be included. To discuss the role of epistemic justice in inclusion, we investigated current knowledge about the epist...

In Global North’s psychology, some existential experiences such as the loss of beloved persons are understood as purely individual problems. In a society of functioning individuals, the person is responsible for her own condition and for consuming the healthcare services provided to overcome the “problem” as soon as possible to go back to the fully...

This paper aims at establishing a dialogue between philosophy and psychology about the conditions and the process through which humans build epistemic relationships during ontogenetic development. By the latter term, we mean any form of interaction which is aimed at producing a belief about some relevant aspects of the world, present or absent, pas...

In this article we discuss the decolonisation of psychology by constructing a project that is open to diversity and transdisciplinarity, rather than providing hyper-fragmented technical knowledge. In the iconic Manifesto antropófago (1928), the poet Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954) claimed the original and creative capability of Brazilian modernist cu...

We provide an overview of the “lines” and “circles” of knowledge that represent the key to reading this collective volume. The two sections of the book are described, introducing the content of each chapter and their connections, resonances and dialectics. The goal of the book is to present an overview of the many interesting emerging perspectives...

The study of mindwandering can expand our understanding of teaching-learning processes and their role in the holistic development of human beings. In the conclusive chapter, we maintain that the research on MW is affected by some stereotypical ideas on education. We also propose to overcome some restricted views by suggesting that MW is one of the...

In this chapter, we analyse the phenomenon of Visual Marginalia (VM)—that is drawings, doodles and writings at the margin of books, notebooks, etc.—as a “blueprint of thought” in educational contexts. Collateral productions on the margins (drawings, sketches, modifications of structured and recognized elements, ornaments, etc.) are something humans...

Drama in education (DiE) is a lively and productive area of art entering into education. This article tries to establish dialogues between DiE and psychology by revisiting the phenomenological world opened by DiE from the theoretical lens of cultural psychology of semiotic mediation. First, we propose to distinguish three main approaches in DiE tow...

The use of dramatization as teaching/learning methodology, useful for the improvement of social, emotional, creative skills, and for the acquisition of knowledge on subject matters such as history, is an established field of research and practice. Yet, there are very few studies on children’s spontaneous dramatization in educational context and its...

Drama-in-Education workshops (DiE) emphasize on balancing between teacher’s delicate structuring and participants’ spontaneous exploration and creation in dramatic activities and thus can be a powerful liminoid space to scaffold and facilitate young people’s development. Still, more researches are needed to dig into and understand such a dynamic an...

The study traces the historical elements that have influenced the development of political-critical thinking in Colombian Psychology. Four historical periods have been identified and discussed: The intellectual colonialism of Colombian Psychology (1947-1960); the social Psychiatry in the years of La comisión [The commission] (1961-1980); the commun...

L'uso della drammatizzazione come metodologia di insegnamento/apprendimento, utile al miglioramento delle capacità sociali, emotive e creative dell'alunno e all'acquisizione di conoscenze, ad esempio nell'ambito storico, è un campo di ricerca e applicazione ormai consolidato. Tuttavia, sono pochi gli studi che indagano la drammatizzazione spontanea...

Visual Marginalia (VM) are a common phenomenon in school, but they hold untapped potentials. We aim to understand their nature and role in learning and thinking. Marginalia are described as making annotations in book margins. In this paper, we extend this concept to include visual self-expressions such as para-writings and para-drawings, creative...

This paper investigates one aspect of meaning making that occurs in the wake of systemic change. It addresses the question of how time is re-configured by socio-material changes resultant from the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing a semiotic perspective, we aim to describe a process of disruption and distress, which leads to a recognition of the oddness...

The paper discusses the problem of master theses’ production in psychology from a decolonial perspective. It presents a critique to the reproductive and monological model of knowledge currently promoted in higher education. Then, it proposes an alternative pedagogic model of research-tandem. The research-tandem is an example of an innovative way of...

Danilo Dolci (1924-1997) was an Italian intellectual, social activist, sociologist, popular educator, and poet, who spent his life in the rural areas of Sicily, trying to develop a progressive view of education as part of the population’s development and liberation from both poverty and organized crime. The core of Dolci’s pedagogy was the idea of...

Psychology has been challenged by its own terminological limitations, in which phenomena of large-scale, field-like kind force us to innovate with our theoretical tools. Phenomena with global impacts – epidemics, pandemics, famines, and the like – remain on the periphery of psychology’s theoretical efforts. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is...

Inaugural invited lecture of the Post-graduate programs in Psychology at the University of Brasilia.

Danilo Dolci (1924-1997) was an Italian intellectual, social activist, sociologist, popular educator, and poet, who spent his life in the rural areas of Sicily, trying to develop a progressive view of education as part of the population’s development and liberation from both poverty and organized crime. The core of Dolci's pedagogy was the idea of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a widespread state of uncertainty and disorientation regarding daily practices and beliefs, creating multiple sense-making processes. The purpose of the study, which is part of a larger international research endeavour, is to explore the psycho-social perception of the risk associated with the spread of Covid-19...

Der Dichter Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954) behauptete in seinem ikonischen Manifesto antropófago (1928) die originäre und kreative Fähigkeit der brasilianischen modernistischen Kultur, ihr europäisches, indianisches und afrikanisches Erbe auf außergewöhnliche Weise zu verarbeiten. Gestützt auf die Metapher der Anthrophagie werden wir ein Projekt der...

Il volume “Era un altro mondo: i nostri figli e l’esperienza del COVID-19” parte dalle narrazioni di alunni preadolescenti di scuole venete, una delle zone più coinvolte dal punto di vista dell’impatto socio-emotivo, e li rapporta con quanto è accaduto nell’intero territorio nazionale. Senza voler infantilizzare le voci dei bambini, il volume propo...

The article presents the results of an exploratory-qualitative study about children´s conceptions of ecology in relation to media messages. The objective of the study has been to identify the role of ecologism and environmental campaigns on ecology conceptions of 105 6th grade children, age 10–12, from an educational institution in Bogotá, Colombia...

In this article, we use the theoretical framework of affective logic to discuss the underlying cultural psychological aspects of racial signifying practices. We provide an analysis of the controversies around the music video “Vai Malandra,” by Brazilian pop singer Anitta, as a case study. Departing from the theoretical assumption that our primary r...

Passing is the research of oneself by trying to look and to be seen as a member of a social group by assuming its features. Individuals performing this process are willing to undergo several physical and behavioural changes to achieve this aspiration. Passing generally occurs among members of minority groups suffering discrimination who want to dim...

This article focuses on bordering as a fundamental semiotic process of human psychological functioning. First, we discuss similarities between semiosis and bordering and explore their relationships. In the perspective of cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics, psychic life is a process of purposeful production and interpretation of signs, carried...

Current understandings of borders in public spaces are informed by urban design theories, premised on the prevalence of visible, material borders. However, borders have a complex and multisensory nature, which has a significant bearing on the regulation of everyday individual and collective life. In multicultural urban spaces of Europe, the issue o...

Many accounts of critical pedagogy, particularly accounts of trying to enact it within higher education (HE), express a deep cynicism about whether it is possible to counter the ever creeping hegemony of neo-liberalism, neo- conservatism and new managerialism within Universities. Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education acknowledges some of these cri...

The article presents the preliminary analysis of Italian children’s diaries during the COVID-19 lockdown. The outbreak of the disease has posed great challenges to people’s daily lives and often children’s perspectives have been overlooked. We conducted a diary study with 28 pre-adolescents in the North–East of Italy to grasp their first-person per...

The ubiquitous presence of imaginative work points at its importance among the higher mental functions. This collective volume discusses both the social relevance of imagination, that cannot be reduced to an inter-individual feature, and the cultural-historical conditions of imagining. The authors develop different theoretical and empirical works i...

Chapter of the book : Social Ecology of a Chinese Kindergarten, Springer 2020 Abstract: Drawing on the two chapters Cultural objects at ECNU Kindergarten and Moral education in a Shanghai kindergarten—how do children perceive social values and norms? I develop some theoretical reflections about the potential of studying school environment as a sem...

The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought to the front a particular object: the face mask. I have explored the way people make-meaning of an object generally associated with the medical context that, under exceptional circumstances, can become a presence in everyday life. Understanding how people make meaning of their use is important. Using cultural ps...

The old controversy about the epistemic status of psychological sciences is useless and sterile. Psychology is ether a hard science nor a soft science. It is an ecological life science, whose object is the whole system of co-developmental relations constituted by the presence of the organism in a given environment. After criticizing the positions o...

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Mind-wandering is a quite common psychological experience that raises a number of issues, when occurring for instance at school. Is it a productive or disruptive phenomenon? The current research focuses on pre-post methods that lose the essential of the process. The article proposes a new methodological approach to observe mind-wandering in its dev...

In the second chapter, some historical cases are presented, illustrating the role of imaginative processes in the development of scientific and philosophical ideas. A first exploration of the features of imaginative work is discussed. Then, the idea of imaginative work is proposed as one of the starting points for the process of investigation.

The first chapter introduces the topic of the book starting from the myth of Hippocrene, which represents the Greek idea of a unity between knowledge and imagination. Then, the problem of the epistemic value of imaginative processes is presented and illuminated with the example of Leonardo da Vinci’s work.

The chapter explores the role of imaginative processes in the history of natural and social sciences. It expands the imaginative activities to the different phases of scientific method and links it to the idea that imagining is a driving force for scientific research, but it also creates the sociopolitical goals that orient science as a social forc...

This chapter provides a history of the concept of imagination from ancient Greece to contemporary Western world. It introduces the main theoretical framework and authors, who are used in this book to develop the concept of imaginative processes as higher mental function.

This chapter presents the new theory of complementarity between imaginative and non-imaginative modes of knowing. It discusses the model, and how it can be understood in terms of sociogenesis of higher mental functions, and, finally, it presents the problem of educating the imaginative activity.

The chapter provides a history of the concept of imagination from ancient Greece to contemporary Western world. It introduces the main theoretical framework and authors, who are used in this book to develop the concept of imaginative processes as higher mental function.

The third year of Human Arenas presents number of developmental tasks. After 2 years of experimentation, Human Arenas is becoming an acknowledged interdisciplinary space for intellectual bravery. We discuss peer-reviewing as one of the fundamental parts of intellectual activity. Too often, scholars dismiss this task as a time-consuming and useless...

Drawing on the two chapters Cultural objects at ECNU Kindergarten and Moral education in a Shanghai kindergarten-how do children perceive social values and norms?, I develop some theoretical reflections about the potential of studying school environment as a semiotic arena, where materiality and semiosis intertwine in generating a number of message...

This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge. It is fully acknowledged by epistemologists that imagination is not something opposed to rationality; it is not mere fantasy opposed to intellect. In philosophy and cognitive sciences, imagination is generally “delimiting not much more than the mental abi...

Through the perspective of the culture psychology of semiotic dynamics, the chapter explores the aesthetic dimension of human experience and its relation of inseparability memory and imagination as psychological processes. Imagining and remembering are based on a shared construction of affective atmospheres. Every future and past imagination or mem...

The article presents the preliminary analysis of Italian children’s diaries during the COVID-19 lockdown. The outbreak of the disease has posed great challenges to people’s daily lives and often children’s perspectives have been overlooked. We conducted a diary study with 28 pre-adolescents in the North–East of Italy to grasp their first-person per...

What can psychology learn from Caravaggio’s art? The chapter presents a discussion of Caravaggio’s naturalistic style, with respect to the process of generalization in the painting “The Seven Works of Mercy,” trying to identify the conceptual elements that make this work a specimen of the human condition of suffering and relieving. From this analys...

The Odyssey is one of the highest products of human creation of all times. In the book Mythos and Voice, Charles Underwood presents an innovative perspective on this work of art, discussing the development of the main characters by the light of psychological and anthropological theories. Then, he discusses the dialogical theories of ontogenetic dev...

In higher education, there is nowadays a production of discourses about the negative effects of academic life on the well-being of the students. In the specific Danish context, we wondered how to understand the process involved in coping with problems and decisions of everyday life. To investigate this question, we present an empirical study on the...

In the contemporary capitalistic societies some existential and psychological experiences, such as the loss of beloved persons, seems to be understood as individual problems. The idea is that in the society of functional individuals, the person is responsible for her own condition, let alone the possibility of consuming the services that the societ...

Thinking about Oneself workshop in 2019. The workshop took place in Cologne and was organized by the Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlM6ylPuBo

Since the famous passage in which Socrates (Plato 1997) says that the unexamined, and therefore non-reflected, life is not worth living, “reflection” has been a diffuse and iterant term in ethics, moral philosophy, epistemology, political philosophy (Tiberius 2008; Skorupski 2010), but also in psychology (Marsico et al. 2015). This volume opens a n...

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The concepts of borders, tensegrity and goal-oriented meaningful conduct are used to study the conditions in which affects and conducts can (or cannot) emerge in urban spaces. We assume psychological phenomena are liminal and emerge in the border zones between different individual and collective states. The main focus of the study is the process of...

After the first year of its existence, Human Arenas is celebrating quite impressive results obtained during 2018. The core of the journal’s editorial policy is the innovative concept of “cultivation rate,” which is challenging a too rigid and short-sighted academic publishing system. Human Arenas editorial policy is oriented towards the other as an...

Pinocchio is one of the most widely read pieces of children’s literature, and has been translated into 200 languages. It has evoked metaphors of childhood’s condition, early description of autism, disruptive behavior, moral development, or even hyperactivity. Less attention has been paid to the aspects of transgenerational relationships, the child’...

Educational Dilemmas uses cultural psychology to explore the challenges, contradictions and tensions that occur during the process of education, with consideration of the effect these have at both the individual and the collective level. It argues that the focus on issues in learning overlooks a fundamental characteristic of education: that the pro...

The article aims at integrating the cultural psychology perspective of into the multidisciplinary field of border studies. It analyses the border phenomenon as a co-genetic system. The authors investigate the psychological side of people who relate to the border out of different motives. Then, it expands some of the theoretical concepts current in...

L'articolo riporta le prime riflessioni emerse da un progetto di ricerca sul mind wandering in classe. Gli autori hanno realizzato un'analisi della lettera-tura scientifica, una serie di studi empirici e alcuni incontri-dibattito di re-stituzione con insegnanti ed alunni. Questo percorso ha prodotto alcune di-scussioni e riflessioni utili rispetto...

Early bid call 3 rd International Winter School "The method of imagination" The decolonization of imagination: the dynamics of voicing, silencing, ventriloquing and speaking on behalf. University of Sydney, 2-5 December 2019 Topic and goal The general topic of the winter school is the notion of the imaginative process as higher mental function. It...

We live in societies emphasizing security and its complementary side of fear. In this work, I analyze the peripheral messages disseminated in the urban environment, whose function is that of regulating human and collective conduct through orienting specific forms of affective meaning-making. According to the perspective of Cultural Psychology of Se...

Human beings are eager producers and consumers of aesthetic experiences. They are able to reach the highest peaks of beauty and mystic ecstasy, and the deepest abysses of terror and abjection (Tateo, 2017a, 2018). The word “aesthetic” has the narrow meaning of a pleasant experience of beauty, pleasure of contemplation, or a mode of artistic consump...

I develop an exploratory analysis of “post-mortem photography”, a social practice existing in different cultures. The study, part of a larger project in Denmark, “The culture of grief”, combines Dialogical Self Theory, mainly concerning verbal and textual objects, with the iconic framework of affective semiosis to discuss the function of taking and...

The article aims at integrating the cultural psychology perspective of into the multidisciplinary field of border studies. It analyses the border phenomenon as a co-genetic system. The authors investigate the psychological side of people who relate to the border out of different motives. Then, it expands some of the theoretical concepts current in...

The teacher is a member of a community. She is integrated in a network of relationships that have contributed to the construction of her professional identity. In return, the unique way in which a teacher contributes to the life of her community is orienting the way her students elaborate their personal version of the community’s culture. This is e...

For a great number of people the context of institutionalized educational contexts is a common experience. Whether it is in a kindergarten, in a school, in a madras, in a boy scout group, in a sport team, people growing up in contemporary societies experienced these contexts. This has enormous implications in the construction and elaboration of Sel...

Psychology of education must discuss a number of relevant ethical, political and societal issues that cannot be simply overlooked as non pertinent to the discipline. For too long educational and developmental psychology have take divergent routes and have not enough dialogued with other fields such as pedagogy. I argue that it is first of all neces...

The authors involved in the creation of this text collaborate on a research project called The Culture of Grief, which explores the current conditions and implications of grief. The authors mostly employ conventional forms of qualitative inquiry, but the present text represents an attempt to reach a level of understanding not easily obtained throug...

The article presents a collective and interdisciplinary academic writing about an itinerant field work in three different sites/areas with the distinct identities of the Estonian territory, in particular the Estonian-Russian border zones. The authors had traveled for 1 week in three different Estonian border areas to observe the everyday life of pe...

My presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Danish Chapter of Marie Curie Alumni Association, in which I make some crucial points: 1) the re-surging nationalism in academia is a tragedy. Science is not a national business: this is an old 19th Century idea which is no longer valid. There is no current scientific question (environment, migration, vi...

The format of this chapter is very unusual. Here are the outcomes of an attempt to realize an idea that appeared while finishing editorial work on this book. As the first editor I have invited authors to share their thoughts on the future and on cultural psychology in the future. Unfortunately it had to be at short notice, so many were unable to co...

Contemporary formal educational systems are obsessed with performance. Social devices and practices are built in order to measure students’ and teachers’ achievements as well as the performance of the system itself, as a result of the commoditization of education: putting money into school and requiring account for investments. This process of natu...

The inaugural issue represents a specimen of the project Human Arenas intends to promote: the interdisciplinary study of higher psychological functions in human goal-oriented liminal phenomena, both in ordinary and extraordinary life conditions. The construction of generalized knowledge about human culture can be developed only through a pluralisti...

Cultural psychology is developing the endeavor of bringing back a focus on the general theory of the human psyche into the horizon of psychological sciences. In this chapter, I discuss some of the relevant philosophical issues of this theoretical framework, such as the focus on the future-oriented nature of psychological processes, the aesthetic di...

In this article we propose a development of the Dialogical Self Theory by introducing the notions of borders, cogenetic logic and tensegrity that we have elaborated during the last 5 years, in order to introduce a stronger developmental and dynamic perspective within the theory. We start from the discussion of some recent advancements of the model...

Humans have awkward ways of relating with the world in comparison to other species. Instead of just representing the objects we encounter, while looking for the satisfaction of our needs, and responding to their entreaties accordingly, we anticipate, invent, and pre-adapt to these encounters, through culturally suggested imaginative, narrative, and...

Work is one arena in which human beings constitute their identities and participate in collective-cultural enterprises. But research on factors affecting the meaning of work and its outcomes focuses mostly on individual-level variables related to workers’ experience. However, scholars have recently proposed a shift towards a more collective dimensi...