While best known for his work on reconstructive remembering, Frederic C. Bartlett advanced a broader vision of human beings as creatively oriented toward the future with the resources of the past. Against mechanistic models of mind, he treated human beings as social and meaning-making organisms who must act within a changing environment. Remembering, thinking, perceiving, and imagining as well as cultural dynamics all function in order to meet this basic goal. Thus, this entry will emphasize theoretical commonalities across his studies in these different areas, which are often treated in separation today. In particular, it discusses how to understand constructiveness, schema, and social processes. Finally, it traces the selective reception of his work through time and across different sub-disciplines of psychology, arguing that Bartlett work continues to offer inspiration for developing an integrative account of mind as historically shaped, socially embedded, and constructively oriented to the future.