Interviews on Educational and Psychological Uses of Myth With Adolescents
by Maren Hansen
Maren Hansen, using insightful interviews with three master teachers of myth (Michael Meade, Betty Staley, and Kent Ferguson)explores many questions:
How do you teach myth to adolescents? How is the study of myth related to human psychological development? What methods help students connect to the psychological dimension in myth? Which myths most effectively address the developmental stage of adolescence?
This lively conversation reveals how myth lifts youth into the larger context of human life and its connection to the earth.
"Mythic sense is what's missing. It's the antidote to literalism. It's the extension and deepening of psychological work. Myth recreates the communal and connections to the invisible realms. If you bring myth into a situation in an honest way, you are doing something that benefits both worlds. Myth helps young people in particular because they are trying to find out who they are. And, they are mythic by nature. To be mythic is to participate in nobility." - Michael Meade
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