Deschooling the Imagination: Critical Thought as Social Practice is, first, a book that looks at what it means to be actively engaged in developing a critical/creative mindset against the prevailing ideology of our public schools

Eric J. Weiner is Associate Professor of Education at Montclair State University in New Jersey, as well as an artist and a poet. His work examines the contradictory spaces that form in the intersection of schooling and critical thought.

Prologue

Part I

1 Introduction

2 Critical Pedagogy and the Crisis of Imagination

3 The Habitus of the Hegemonic Imagination

4 Constructions of Innocence in Times of War: Breaking into the Hegemony of Peace

5 The Story of B. W. Gartenkraut and the Institute of Critical and Creative Thought: What Should Be, Could Be, But Isn't

Part II

6 Instructional Techniques: Critical Thought as Imaginative Practice

7 Conclusion: Liberating the Imagination