Supporting unusual development through moral imagination

This article will explore the role of relationships and imagination in supporting unusual development and the use of adapted mediational objects. More specifically it will explore how the concept moral imagination might help understand developmental support. Through the example of a mother's invention of a novel mode of communication for and with her daughter, whose condition hindered her development of spoken language, the article explores and discusses imagination as a social enterprise emerging in the relation between participants in sensitive relationships. It is concluded that the imagined potential within a relation and of another person is a requisite to create new developmental practices. Knowledge about specialised tools and pedagogies is by no account dispensable, but must be given life in sensitive relationships.
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research