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Torrance's effort and researchers working today on the solution

A huge creative activism project

Cool post and site recommended by Fredrik Kruger-Ross

"GREENE: And John, you wrote an introduction to this issue of Granta, and you said that literature asserts that the world, as it is imagined, is every bit as important as the world as it exists. Is that really the case? FREEMAN: Yeah, because if we only agreed with what the world is, there would never be the future. The world, as it will be, is partly imagined, and it's part entropy. And if we believe that we can have some sense of control of our destinies - whether it's how we educate children or how we write our own stories - part of that has to do with the imagining, and novels help us imagine more beautifully, I think, than almost any other art form. "

"On Monday, the American Library Association its list of the "most-challenged books," that is, books that have received the highest number of "formal, written complaint[s] filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness." Dav Piley's Captain Underpants tops the list, and is joined by books like Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Toni Morrison's Beloved and E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey."

Huge creative activism project

Be okay with chaos. Start thinking in stories; Brand loyalty prevents decision fatigue

discussion of the value of novels as a tool of imagination

Brookfield's book includes theory and practical activities for engaging students in critical thinking.

Creative Activism projects

Intro to meaning and bookcasts

Inspiring!

""Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place where visions of theory and praxis come together. The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know - to understand how life works" (hooks, "

You're so not going to believe Preference's take on empathy . . .

Beautiful photos

speaking of GMOs

After writing all of this I realize that I am not leaving my profession, in truth, it has left me.

Lots of great storytelling!