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ABSTRACT:
No one sincerely doubts that schools should take seriously the need to develop children's imaginations and their capacity to be imaginative. The issue is what does this mean? And what are its implications? This paper, which is mostly inspired by the writings about the imagination of two British nineteenth-century Romantic poets – Coleridge and Wordsworth – provides some answers.
Maybe that's what the problem is these days. We don't have time to imagine.
(Tracey Emin, artist, Independent, 29 June 2007)
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Notes
Some of the analysis found in this paper received earlier attention in a recently published book of mine: Halpin, D. (2007) Romanticism and Education: Love, Heroism and Imagination in Pedagogy (London, Continuum).
