Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect
I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published:2nd Apr '03
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Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect argues for re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform. Weems’s work lives in the moment of creation. Her imagination-intellect theory chapters frame this book; she posits that the imagination and intellect are inextricably linked; that like Freire’s architect all ideas are first imagined, then intellectually developed in an interconnected process that mirrors the blood’s circulation through the body. The two plays and the collection of poems are rich, layered landscapes of African American culture and meanings. They lend themselves to multi-interpretation, co-performance, and co-ownership by each audience member who engages the work.
«Mary E. Weems’ ‘Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth’ is a critical and creative tour de force. It is a rich, multilayered text. Combining multiple genres of writing and multiple points of departure, this book takes us to places of personal experience and critical insight where educators have never gone before. It is as much an urban artist’s testimonial as it is the most radical demolition of the kind of disciplinary confinement and knowledge insulation that now mars educational research and thinking. Not since Baldwin in ‘Fire Next Time’ has a public intellectual spoken so forcefully about the contradictions of experience and existence in urban life and the educational and cultural lessons that we have chosen to ignore.»
(Cameron McCarthy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780820458281
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 220g
125 pages
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