Document Type

Curriculum Materials

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

Dreamers is a philosophical adventure novel for ages 12 and beyond, told through the eyes of four pre-adolescent children of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds living in a small town in the American Southwest, who embark together on a school inquiry project centered on the phenomenon of dreaming. Not only do they record and share their dreams with each other, they inquire together into the role and status of dreaming in cultures past and present, the interpretation of dreams, the scientific analysis of dreaming, and the role of dreams in mythology and religion. The dramatic events of the novel are interspersed with discussions around concepts in philosophy of nature, and evoke the perennial re-articulation of vitalism, hylozoism and panpsychism in the philosophical tradition, and the queering of the distinction between the organic and the inorganic, the human and the non-human implicit in a post-human, relational ontology. See the online instructional manual at: Dreamers Home Page

Book Publisher

Green Teen Team

Journal ISSN / Book ISBN

978-0993068874

Published Citation

Kennedy, David (2023) Dreamers: Adventures in dreams and dreams of adventures ...>i/> Green Teen Team.

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