Deschooling the Imagination

Deschooling the Imagination: Critical Thought as Social Practice is first a book that looks at what it means to be actively engaged in developing a critical/creative mindset against the prevailing ideology of our public schools. Second it is a book about the social/cultural relationship between what and how we learn on one hand and our imaginative capacities on the other. Finally but equally important it is a book about how teachers can teach in the service of a revived critical/creative imaginary. In short you may be interested in reading this book if you are curious about examining the following questions in more depth: How can educators and those involved and/or invested in public education in the United States learn to think about curriculum assessment pedagogy school structures knowledge power identity language/literacy economics creativity human ecology and our collective future in a way that escapes the over-determined discourses that inform current attitudes and practices of schooling? What are some of the tactics and strategies that teachers students parents administrators and policymakers can learn and enact in the service of a future that we can barely imagine?