The Politics of Imagination: Dreaming toward Justice-Oriented Civic Futures
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| Title: | The Politics of Imagination: Dreaming toward Justice-Oriented Civic Futures |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Alex Corbitt |
| Source: | Voices from the Middle. 2024 31(3):17-20. |
| Availability: | National Council of Teachers of English. 1111 West Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Tel: 877-369-6283; Tel: 217-328-3870; Web site: http://www.ncte.org/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 4 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizenship Education, Imagination, Social Justice, Social Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Reader Text Relationship |
| DOI: | 10.58680/vm202431317 |
| ISSN: | 1074-4762 1943-3069 |
| Abstract: | Acknowledging that students are civic actors and that teaching and learning is always relevant to civic lives, this article addresses how imaginative spaces can be political and if the ways that educators dream and speculate with youth have civic implications. The author first considers how communities and nations are shaped by sociopolitical imaginaries and then reviews some ways that youths and adults have leveraged the potency of imagination toward justice. The hope is to highlight the promise and precarity of imaginative thinking so that educators can account for its sociopolitical utility and impact. |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1459665 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Acknowledging that students are civic actors and that teaching and learning is always relevant to civic lives, this article addresses how imaginative spaces can be political and if the ways that educators dream and speculate with youth have civic implications. The author first considers how communities and nations are shaped by sociopolitical imaginaries and then reviews some ways that youths and adults have leveraged the potency of imagination toward justice. The hope is to highlight the promise and precarity of imaginative thinking so that educators can account for its sociopolitical utility and impact. |
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| ISSN: | 1074-4762 1943-3069 |
| DOI: | 10.58680/vm202431317 |
