Seeing past Z : nurturing the imagination in a fast-forward world /

"In prose and through personal stories, some told by children, Beth Kephart affirms the imagination as the heart of our ability to emphathize with others, to appreciate the world, and to envision possibilities of the future. The star of her story is fourteen years old - a child who at first res...

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Main Author: Kephart, Beth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2004.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Imagining tomorrow
  • I'll trade you my story for your story
  • Tiny golden spark
  • Legacies
  • Guess who
  • Dimming the lights
  • The things we'd never think of
  • Star on the ceiling
  • The velvet beyond
  • The stuff of memory
  • Perseverance
  • Reading alone
  • Writing it down
  • What does it matter?
  • The first summer workshop
  • Wherever they are going
  • Interference
  • Paying attention to the process
  • Surprise endings
  • A few like-minded souls
  • The little critic
  • A community of writers
  • Prolific
  • On becoming a compassionate writer
  • On his own
  • No more than that, no less
  • The unbridled imagination
  • In the director's seat.