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Slow Wonder: Letters on Imagination and Education

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Slow Wonder: Letters on Imagination and Education
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter O'Connor
By (author) Claudia Rozas Gomez
SeriesElements in Creativity and Imagination
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:75
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenrePhilosophy of the mind
ISBN/Barcode 9781009124393
ClassificationsDewey:370.1
Audience
General
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 October 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Slow wonder bears witness to the possibilities of the imagination. In a series of letters the authors playfully imagine alternatives to current orthodoxies that privilege technocratic approaches to education that have strangled discussion about what it might mean to make education good and right, or even beautiful. The authors position the imagination as a powerful site of resistance within education and academic life. They unpack their philosophical positionings through vignettes of their teaching practice, poetry written as reflective musings and discursive theoretical pieces, including letters they have written to others. They attempt to marry the poetic and the academic, the rational and the affective, to model a slow approach to wondering about the joy, beauty and possibilities of life. In this spirit, they contemplate new ways to think and live in education.