Analyzes how people create or discover meaning through language and how imaginative literature helps them to do this. (DD)

Recognizes that the recent terrorist attacks were a powerful reminder that the imagination can be a destructive as well as a constructive force. Addresses the unsettling question of what it means to educate the imagination in the wake of September 11th. (SG)

Claims that the possibility of freedom is an aspect of one's individuality, and this possibility must be actualized through circumstances and conscious involvement with other human beings. Argues education should open spaces to enable poor and minority children to imagine new possibilities for themselves. (NH)

The essays in this book are the author's attempt to connect her own seeking with the strivings of other teachers and teacher educators who are tired of a self-centered, technocratic existence and who want to enhance their understanding of diversity. The essays concentrate on imagination as a means through which to assemble a coherent world,…