Children engage with their imaginative faculties in a variety of ways as they grow and develop. Th ey play simple pretend games starting at about the age of two (Fein, 1981; Nicolich, 1977; Singer & Singer, 1990), which are then elaborated into longer pretend sequences and sometimes into ongoing relationships with imaginary companions (Taylor, 1999) and paracosms (see chapter 27). Children also...

In this theoretical article, the qualities of artist for peacebuilding and peace education are explored. Peacebuilding not only based on skills knowledge, but also art, a creative process that originates in our imagination. The question guiding paper is: How can we, as peacebuilders educators, imagine, invent, create cultures build spaces others to do so? Based Lederach’s moral imagination, I p...

Imagination is a fundamental ability of humans which resides in the cognitive system. We propose a connectionist model that generates images from a given sentence after trained on a dataset of image-sentence pairs. The model is composed of language model and image model that are connected with a latent variable constrained by a prior distribution. The latent variable encodes dual information an...

what is imagination and image? how is a mental picture formed? how does the product of imagination appear as an artistic or literary from? what are the factors that cause man to prefer the world of imagination over reality, making it, his/her choice and becoming an artist or a writer? these were the questions that made jean-paul sartre busy between 1920 to 1940, and after that he was thinking a...