Inquiry, Imagination, and the Search for a Deep Politic

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ID9734966
AuthorsAndrew Gitlin (0000-0002-6091-8492, University of Utah, 377 MBH, 1705 E. Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9256; . His areas of specialization include teacher education, educational policy, and alternative qualitative methods, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume34
Issue3
Pages15-24
Publication date2005-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x034003015
OpenAlexW2036454401
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

In this article, the author recommends that we consider how inquiry can facilitate the search for a deep politic. Using an epistemology that shifts between education and aesthetics, the search for a deep politic is based on our human potential to interrogate and (re)imagine everyday politics. By doing so, the author argues, it is possible to see anew and move beyond the status quo to the “not yet” without being completely immersed in the normative traditions of the present and past. Linking our ability to “see” everyday politics with our human ability to imagine and create facilitates a process of change that sits uneasily with the categories, structures, and relationships that tie us to the current constructions of our life-worlds

Aesthetics · Art · Body politic · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Status quo · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

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