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Learning by Heart: Teachings To Free The Creative Spirit

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During my doctoral work in Leadership Studies, my literature review on Creativity that led me to Kent/Steward's coloful and wise book. Corita Kent was a woman way ahead of her times, and Jan Steward did the world a favor by collaborating with this amazing artist to share with the world her engaging and charismatic teaching methodology.

This book is a must for all teachers of art, women's studies professors, and anyone interested in creativity, multiculturalism, and leadership. Why don't they republish this treasure so that new readers can access it for a reasonable price? It is worth the $..., but unfair to the humanities!

Sad that this book is hard to find as it is one of the livliest books around on the subject of creativity! Filled with wonderful words of inspiration, pictures and photos it takes the reader through many aspects of artistic creativity. The book, itself a playful realizaton of creativity, brings the teaching brilliance of Corita Kent to all who read it.

Rarely have I met a book that invites me to join in such a luscious romp in creativity. Since this book found its way to me 10 years ago, I keep it close at hand and revisit its pages with the same pleasure as visiting a dear friend. The writing style and images are inviting, informative and inspiring.

This is a valuable tool abundant with ideas for the artist as well as the educator who dreams of a rejuvenation in their teaching and learning. I wish to see this book in print once again, to continue to inspire the joy found in true creativity.

As Education Director for a large arts organization, I desperately need 30 copies to pass on to our teaching artists to ignite the fires we all kindle deeply inside. And then of course, I'll need a spare to takes its place alongside my own rather tattered and loved - Learning by Heart.

I am using Learning by Heart as a resource with my graduate students in a course called "Research and Teaching in the Humanities". The book has fabulous activities, thoughts, and ideas for encouraging the creative process. I would have used it as the textbook, had it been available! Please encourage the publisher to reissue this wonderful, insightful book!

Since I bought this book about eight years ago, I've loaned it to many who have been loath to return it to me. I continue to hope that it will be republished. I think it deserves a revival. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in exploring their own creativity or enabling others creativity. This is a resource that should be availble for a long time. Please let me know as soon as it becomes available again.

I bought this book because I am an Gen-X art teacher who saw it in the library of an older teacher. It was hard to find, but I devoured the entire book when it arrived. It's beutiful and insightful, and an inspiration to art teachers and artists everywhere. Corita Kent has touched many of us in the education community, and she guides teachers to foster the bravery to chart into the waters of creativity. I wish I had had the priveledge to work with Corita Kent. Buy this book and cherish it.

Fantastic beautiful inspiring book for art and living life to it's fullest. It teaches you to see and how to make what you see into art. Great art exercises. I've read this book a million times! The only bad thing about it was it made see what a real art teacher can do and how I wished I had had Sister Corita Kent as my art teacher instead of the crappy ones I had. It has made me a better artist and art teacher. Get this book. Read it over and over!!