Power of Imagination - Education, Innovations and Democracy

The purpose of this book is to encourage the use and exploration of imagination, intuition and insight as essential ingredients for scientific, educational and civic endeavors. This groundbreaking book is a kind of intellectual provocation, but also an antidote for our current crises in education. It is a dizzying, transdisciplinary and morphing romp through fields as disparate as complexity theory, quantum physics, neuroscience, political sciences as well as the innovative uses of games.

List of contents

Path - Labyrinth - Enigma - Curiosity - Cognition (Uncertainty and Pleasure) - Spookiness and Entanglement - Kaleidoscope of Consciousness - Mystery of Cognition - Intuition, Insight and Prediction - Around the corner - Narrative, Creation and Fun - Innovation and Imitation - Education, Transformality, Flexibility

About the author

Agnieszka Rothert is Professor of Political Science at the University of Warsaw, the Head of the Unit of European Institutions and Participant of the training program "SIMS ¿ Scientific Infrastructure Management Support" at the NCBR, Technische Universität Dresden, Fraunhofer MOEZ & IZI, IBM. She is the author of several books showing how concepts drawn from complexity theory can be adapted in our understanding of global politics.

Product details

• Authors: Agnieszka Rothert
• Assisted by: Stanislaw Sulowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9783631671702
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67170-2
• No. of pages: 129
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Series: Lang, Peter Frankfurt; Studies in Politics, Security and Society; Studies in Politics, Security and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education