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Intergenerationality in the Light of Indeterminacy

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This Special Issue aims to shed light on the undetermined nature of intergenerational trajectories. Indeterminacy has been suggested to the author as an avenue to tackle the dynamic aspect –which entails looking at tensions in an unfolding process— of intergenerationality. We present the paper in this Special Issue by insisting on their main contributions, we identify HOW they define the concept of generation, particularly in reference to indeterminacy.

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  1. “The movements unfolding at the boundary of different timelines and between people’s dialogical worlds (indicated by two arrows in the right part of Figure [2]) create potentialities. For example, a child changing perspective on the school curriculum by following elders’ movement in elders’ collective past enables him or her to develop a temporal consciousness of school. This indicates a change in positioning movements. Changes in such movements refer to shifts –bifurcations in trajectories and style shifting when semantic is implied. From a developmental and sociocultural standpoint, such changes may take the form of major qualitative turning points or bifurcation lines”.

  2. “From this perspective, crossing a limit entails a dialogical encounter with the Other. As the child is crossing his or her limits under the guidance of the elder, the latter is also crossing a limit. Imagine the child and the elder working on mathematics in a computer using a new technology unfamiliar to the elder. They have to coordinate one another—the child demonstrating how to use the computer is doing so in reference to a mathematical problem that he or she has to consider in this very demonstration. Demonstrating how the computer works to the elder may simultaneously involve the child using referential cues accessible to the elder to push him or her up while the elder reframes the mathematical problem using referential cues accessible to the child to push him or her up. Co-referentiality happens and pushes the child and the elder up. It occurs simultaneously so that the limits correspond to two moving lines—while the child uses referential cues to guide the elder, the latter is adjusting his or her ways of using cues (to push the child up in mathematic) in reference to what the elder is currently learning from the child. The elder’s referentiality in mathematic is made sense of in the context of computer-based problems that are progressively being accessible to the elder”.

  3. She is not making her sister’s position an absence of position. Rather, she is making the content of this position an absence.

  4. Here, she echos Rabinovitch’s reference to the person being situated between language and the world.

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  1. Departement of Education, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamigue, 675 1st Avenue, Val-D’or, Quebec, J9P 1Y3, Canada

    Dany Boulanger

  2. Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Isabelle Albert

  3. Department of Psychology, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, USA

    Emily Abbey

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Boulanger, D., Albert, I. & Abbey, E. Intergenerationality in the Light of Indeterminacy. Integr. psych. behav. 56, 1–16 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09674-8

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