I Believe in the Imagination!

Kearney provokes me, but ultimately I find we are on the same side.
Kearney, Richard
The Wake of Imagination: Toward a Postmodern Culture
London: Routledge, 1994.
Perhaps it is because I am able to make my living as an artist, creating dances and teaching for an organization that holds imagination as paramount, but prior to reading Richard Kearney’s The [...]

Imagination is Central in Education: Warnock Sheds Light

Imagination
Warnock, Mary
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978
At LCI, we are almost always thinking about the imagination. I wonder about how our definition of – and advocacy for – imagination corresponds to that of psychological, philosophical, and educational theory. This book, though it takes some thoughtful time to digest, begins to discuss these connections.

Philosophy Light with a Compelling Call to Arms for Educators

Warnock, Mary
Imagination & Time
Blackwell Publishers, 1994
During the past two years teaching artists, partnering educators, and the leadership and staff of Lincoln Center Institute have been exploring the concept of imagination as a central value in education. As an LCI teaching artist I have participated in some of these explorations—verbal and embodied, where we have discovered [...]