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Conversation around the power of the imagination

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This conversation celebrates the imagination and its vital importance in our lives and in our learning. It also celebrates children’s voices and the voices of adults and their expressions of imagination through their drawings and words and how these expressions informed and transformed our thinking.

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  1. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Gloria Latham & Robyn Ewing

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Latham, G., Ewing, R. (2018). Conversation around the power of the imagination. In: Generative Conversations for Creative Learning. Creativity, Education and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60519-7_4

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