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Combining scholarly research with personal experience, Andrews examines how story and imagination come together in different areas of life such as education, politics, and aging. She focuses on the importance of the narrative imagination when listening to the experiences of others who have very different experiences of the world, asking if it is ever possible to understand the suffering of others. She asks what kind of stories influence our thinking about who we are becoming in our aging selves. In the chapter on teaching, she looks at the dynamics of the teacher-student relationship and the stultifying effect of some educational practices and policies on the imagination. The discussion on education and global citizenship leads directly into the chapter on political narratives, where Andrews uses the example of Barack Obama as one of the most strategic storytellers of our time.
Narrative and imagination are integrally tied to one another; this is immediately clear to anyone who stops to think about stories real and imagined, about the past or in a promised, or feared, future. In asking why and how this is so, Andrews directs us to ruminate on what it means to be human.
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ISBN: 9780199812394
ISBN-10: 019981239X
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology
Published: 31st January 2014
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 176
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 16.0 x 24.1 x 1.7
Weight (kg): 0.39
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