This book offers a detailed examination of imagination in learning. Teachers working with the ideas of Imaginative Education in their classrooms provide examples that cover multiple curricular areas and span elementary through secondary school contexts. "Imagination" has moved in recent years from being considered some kind of educational frill to a recognized main workhorse of teaching and learning. It is this new perspective that this book celebrates and exemplifies. The book is divided between teachers' and researchers' voices, both exploring a range of ways in which the imagination can be...
This book offers a detailed examination of imagination in learning. Teachers working with the ideas of Imaginative Education in their classrooms provi...
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate education needs to take seriously the task of evoking wonder about the content of the curriculum and to show how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms....
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children...
Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet. Cultivating ecological understanding can be more challenging for teachers than simply imparting knowledge of ecological issues; it requires reimagining the human world as part of, not apart from, nature.
Describing the key principles of an approach to teaching called Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE), this book offers a practical guide for all teachers (K-12). It is designed for use with...
Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a m...
Students' imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination - one of the great workhorses of learning - can be used to make all learning and all teaching more effective.
Students' imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs,...
