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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... focus on the kinds of behavioural repertoires prominent in that research and ignore something so obviously central to good teaching as imagination. There is something in this of the old joke about looking for a lost key on the clean ...
... focus on students' cognition is in terms of logico-mathematical skills that our very concept of education becomes affected. I hope that by taking the imagination more seriously in education a more proportionate concept might be ...
... focus of this book is on students' imaginative lives, this is a teacher- centred book. This does not mean that it seeks to depreciate the value of student activity, initiative, or construction in their learning. Nor does it seek to ...
... works, focus on their practical implications, and move in the direction of techniques that teachers can add to their set of professional skills. CHAPTER ONE A Very Short History of Imagination DOI: 10.4324/9781315887654-1.
... focus is imagination. In as far as imagination is assumed generally to be a good thing, it is far from clear that it is more fully exercised, more evidently life-enhancing, more socially beneficial now than at the beginnings of human ...
Sommario
Why Is Imagination Important to Education? | |
Characteristics of Students Imaginative Lives Ages 815 | |
Imagination and Teaching | |
Image and Concept | |
Conclusion | |
References | |
Index | |