Speaking Out

<p>In his successful <em>Creative Storytelling</em> Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In <em>Speaking Out</em> this master storyteller goes further speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within storytelling and creative drama during the K-12 years.<br><br>For the past four years Jack Zipes has worked with the Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis taking his storytelling techniques into inner-city schools. <em>Speaking Out </em>is in part a record of the transformations storytelling can work on the minds and lives of young people. But it is also a vivid and exhilarating demonstration of a different kind of education - one built from deep inside each child. <br><br><em>Speaking Out</em> is a book for storytellers educators parents and anyone who cares about helping kids find within themselves the keys to imagination.</p>