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Cultural psychology, in association with a Trajectory Equifinality Approach, consists of a very productive theoretical and methodological approach to make sense of human trajectories within cultural historical contexts. Our study is about the life trajectory of Felipe, a musician born and raised in a poor town located in Brazil. The study aimed at identifying and analyzing indicators in his narrative – obtained during four consecutive interviews – concerning the ontogenesis of hypergeneralized signs the participant considered as fundamental guides during his life trajectory. For Felipe, music turned out to be his utmost hypergeneralized sign, and he became a musician. However, financial circumstances led him to become a teacher as well, and Felipe developed a double self-positioning we designated as Musician/Teacher. Our focus is upon how personal values – and other significant events and memory reconstructions guided by imagination – progressively oriented Felipe’s trajectory during developmental ruptures, bifurcations, and transitions throughout his life.
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Branco, A.U., Valério, T.A.T.M. (2020). Dynamics Between Past, Present, and Future: The Role of Constructive Imagination in a Musician-Teacher’s Life Trajectory. In: Lyra, M.C., Wagoner, B., Barreiro, A. (eds) Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64175-7_8
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