Imagination in Teaching and Learning: Ages 8 to 15Routledge, 16 ott 2013 - 188 pagine Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject matter from their pupils' point of view. It is, however, difficult to define imagination in practice and even more difficult to make full use of its potential. In this original and stimulating book, Kieran Egan, winner of the prestigous Grawemeyer award for education in 1991, discusses what imagination really means for children and young people in the middle years and what its place should be in the midst of the normal demands of classroom teaching and learning. Egan uses a bright and witty style to move from a brief history of the ways in which imagination has been regarded over the years, through a general discussion of the links between learning and imagination. A selection of sample lesson plans show teachers how they can encourage effective learning through stimulating pupils' imaginations in a variety of curriculum areas, including maths, science, social studies and language work. |
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... ideas in this book. In particular 1 am grateful to Miranda Armstrong, Ann Connolly, and Kathy Saville of Eltham College, Melbourne, and to Di Fleming of Methodist Ladies College, MelbOurne, to Sandy Chamberlain and the late, greatly ...
... ideas has nearly always been connected with the powers of imagination to “see” solutions to problems. Our emotions seem tied to these mental images; when we imagine something we tend to feel as though it is real or present, such that it ...
... ideas from the rest of the book. But I do recognize that such an introduction might seem unnecessary or redundant to some readers whose primary interest is in the book's main practical purpose. That is, I think one can simply accept the ...
... theory that focusses on the imagination. if you wish to follow up the topic of this book in greater detail, or consider related ideas on imagination and learning among younger children, other books in this project introduction 7.
... ideas related to students' imaginative development from the larger and more theoretical works, focus on their practical implications, and move in the direction of techniques that teachers can add to their set ofprofessional skills. A ...
Sommario
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II Why Is Imagination Important to Education? | 45 |
III Characteristics of Students̕ Imaginative Lives Ages 815 | 67 |
IV Imagination and Teaching | 91 |
V Image and Concept | 115 |
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Some Further Examples | 119 |
Conclusion | 153 |
References | 169 |
Subject Index | 175 |