Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School YearsUniversity of Chicago Press, 21 apr 2014 - 188 pagine It is widely believed that a child's imagination ought to be stimulated and developed in education. Yet, few teachers understand what imagination is or how it lends itself to practical methods and techniques that can be used easily in classroom instruction. In this book, Kieran Egan—winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his work on imagination—takes up where his Teaching as Story Telling left off, offering practical help for teachers who want to engage, stimulate, and develop the imaginative and learning processes of children between the ages of eight to fifteen. This book is not about unusually imaginative students and teachers. Rather, it is about the typical student's imaginative life and how it can be stimulated in learning, how the average teacher can plan to achieve this aim, and how the curriculum can be structured to help achieve this aim. Slim and determinedly practical, this book contains a wealth of concrete examples of curriculum design and teaching techniques structured to appeal specifically to children in their middle school years. |
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I A Very Short History of the Imagination | 9 |
II Why Is Imagination Important to Education? | 45 |
III Characteristics of Students Imaginative Lives Ages 815 | 67 |
IV Imagination and Teaching | 91 |
V Image and Concept | 115 |
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