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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... vivid quasi-pictorial images, some having such hazy experiences that the word “image” seems not appropriate. And the same person may be familiar with this range of what seem like different kinds or degrees of “images”. Imagination lies ...
... vivid images in teaching. So much educational literature, encouraged no doubt by the consistent focus on logico-mathematical forms of thinking, emphasizes the development and use of concepts that it sometimes seems the educational uses ...
... vivid power rarely encountered in the Western intellectual tradition today. So let us begin with imagination in mythic cultures, and then try to trace something of its career in the mental life of the West. In the conclusion to this ...
... vivid and powerful imaginative thought at the earliest times from which we have any traces? The closeness to oral myth is commonly assumed to be responsible for the power of the earliest Western literature, of Homer and the epic poets ...
... vivid images, and story structuring were, we might sensibly observe, the most important early social inventions. It was these technical linguistic tools, and their effects on the mind, that helped human groups to cohere and remain ...
Sommario
Why Is Imagination Important to Education? | |
Characteristics of Students Imaginative Lives Ages 815 | |
Imagination and Teaching | |
Image and Concept | |
Conclusion | |
References | |
Index | |