Education And Imagination

Author : Yannis Hadzigeorgiou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319295268

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Imaginative Science Education by Yannis Hadzigeorgiou Pdf

This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an imaginative/creative activity. As such, the book can be seen as an original contribution of ideas relating to imagination and creativity in science education. The approaches discussed in the book are storytelling, the experience of wonder, the development of ‘romantic understanding’, and creative science, including science through visual art, poetry and dramatization. However, given the perennial problem of how to engage students (of all ages) in science, the notion of ‘aesthetic experience’, and hence the possibility for students to have more holistic and fulfilling learning experiences through the aforementioned imaginative approaches, is also discussed. Each chapter provides an in-depth discussion of the theoretical background of a specific imaginative approach (e.g., storytelling, ‘wonder-full’ science), reviews the existing empirical evidence regarding its role in the learning process, and points out its implications for pedagogy and instructional practices. Examples from physical science illustrating its implementation in the classroom are also discussed. In distinguishing between ‘participation in a science activity’ and ‘engagement with science ideas per se’, the book emphasizes the central role of imaginative engagement with science content knowledge, and thus the potential of the recommended imaginative approaches to attract students to the world of science.

Author : Kieran Egan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cognition in children
ISBN : 1920963944

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Imaginative Education by Kieran Egan Pdf

Author : Gillian Judson
Publisher : Pacific Educational Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 1926966759

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Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education by Gillian Judson Pdf

This book illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet.

Author : Gillian Judson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1433110210

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A New Approach to Ecological Education by Gillian Judson Pdf

"Part of the Peter Lang Education list"--P. facing t.p.

Author : Maxine Greene
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787952914

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Releasing the Imagination by Maxine Greene Pdf

"This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination in general education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and the social and multicultural context.... The author argues for schools to be restructured as places where students reach out for meanings and where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. She invites readers to develop processes to enhance and cultivate their own visions through the application of imagination and the arts. Releasing the Imagination should be required reading for all educators, particularly those in teacher education, and for general and academic readers." —Choice "Maxine Greene, with her customary eloquence, makes an impassioned argument for using the arts as a tool for opening minds and for breaking down the barriers to imagining the realities of worlds other than our own familiar cultures.... There is a strong rhythm to the thoughts, the arguments, and the entire sequence of essays presented here." —American Journal of Education "Releasing the Imagination gives us a vivid portrait of the possibilities of human experience and education's role in its realization. It is a welcome corrective to current pressures for educational conformity." —Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, Stanford University "Releasing the Imagination challenges all the cant and cliché littering the field of education today. It breaks through the routine, the frozen, the numbing, the unexamined; it shocks the reader into new awareness." —William Ayers, associate professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago

Author : Kieran Egan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134523627

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Imagination in Teaching and Learning by Kieran Egan Pdf

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.

Author : Raya Jones,Austin Clarkson,Sue Congram,Nick Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134082155

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Education and Imagination by Raya Jones,Austin Clarkson,Sue Congram,Nick Stratton Pdf

This edited book explores the application of Jungian perspectives in educational settings.

Author : Joy Whitton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351612470

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Fostering Imagination in Higher Education by Joy Whitton Pdf

Imagination and creative teaching approaches are increasingly important across all higher education disciplines, not just the arts. Investigating the role of imagination in teaching and learning in non-arts disciplines, this book argues that a lack of clarity about what imagination looks like in higher education impedes teachers in fostering their students’ creativity. Fostering Imagination in Higher Education tells four ethnographic stories from physics, history, finance and pharmaceutical science courses, analytically observing the strategies educators use to encourage their students’ imagination, and detailing how students experience learning when it is focussed on engaging their imagination. The highly original study is framed by Ricoeur’s work on different forms of imagination (reproductive and productive or generative). It links imaginative thinking to cognitive science and philosophy, in particular the work of Clark, Dennett and Polanyi, and to the mediating role of disciplinary concepts and social-cultural practices. The author’s discussion of models, graphs, strategies and artefacts as tools for taking learners’ thinking forward has much to offer understandings of pedagogy in higher education. Students in these case studies learned to create themselves as knowledge producers and professionals. It positioned them to experience actively the constructed nature of the knowledge and processes they were learning to use – and the continuing potential of knowledge to be remade in the future. This is what makes imaginative thinking elemental to the goals of higher education.

Author : Margaret McMillan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Educational psychology
ISBN : WISC:89055104053

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Education Through the Imagination by Margaret McMillan Pdf

Author : Sean Blenkinsop
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443803700

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The Imagination in Education by Sean Blenkinsop Pdf

This collection of essays from scholars in eleven countries, centres upon the theory and practice of the use of imagination in education. By bringing together studies covering a wide range of subject matter we trust that the reader will have the opportunity to appreciate both the diversity within the field and the significance of the topics discussed. We hope too that readers will find connections to their own areas of study. The 13 essays present distinct yet converging points of view, whether it be a discussion of the imagination as a virtue, the use of imagination as a means to improve aboriginal education in Northern Canada, or the description of a museum in Brazil in which the imagination of the child is central to the project. Separately, each of the papers identifies and explores a distinct aspect of Imaginative Education; together, they begin to define the breadth and richness of the field. These essays have been selected from papers presented over a period of several years to research symposiums in imagination and education held every summer in Vancouver, Canada under the auspices of the Imaginative Education Research Group in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.

Author : Kieran Egan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226190433

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Learning in Depth by Kieran Egan Pdf

Real education, Egan Explains, consists of both general knowledge and detailed understanding, and in Learning in Depth he outlines an ambitious, yet practical plan to incorporate deep knowledge into basic education. Under Egan's program, students will follow the usual curriculum, but with one crucial addition: beginning with their first days of school and continuing until graduation, they will each also study one topic-such as apples, birds, sacred buildings, mollusks, circuses, or stars-in depth. Over the years, with the help and guidance of their supervising teacher, students will expand their understanding of their one topic and build portfolios of knowledge that grow and change along with them. By the time they graduate each student will know as much about his or her topic as almost anyone on earth-and in the process will have learned important, even life-changing lessons about the meaning of expertise, the value of dedication, and the delight of knowing something in depth. --

Author : Krystina Madej
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443818223

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Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity in Education by Krystina Madej Pdf

Imagination is the Source of Creativity and Invention This series of essays has been collected expressly to bring readers new ideas about imagination and creativity in education that will both stimulate discussion and debate and also contribute practical ideas for how to infuse our daily classrooms with imaginative activities. In a world that values creative innovation, it is distressing that our schools are dominated by an educational paradigm that pays too little attention to engaging the imagination and emotions of students in the curriculum and the worlds challenges that the curriculum is designed to prepare students to meet. The ability of children to think creatively, to be innovative, enterprising, and capable, depends greatly on providing a rich imagination-based educational environment. It is only when we consider the imagination a vital component of our lives and one of the great workhorses of learning that we recognize the importance of adding the imaginative to the study of the affective, cognitive, and physical modes of our development. Doing so fills a gap that has led to incomplete accounts of childrens development, their subsequent learning needs, and indeed, how to fulfill these needs in educational environments. This discussion, about the importance of imagination and creativity in education, has been taken up by researchers and educators around the world. It is represented here by writings from authors from Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Italy, Israel, Japan, and Romania. In the first part of this book these authors explore and discuss theories of development, imagination, and creativity. In the second part they extend these theories to broader social issues such as responsible citizenship, gender, and special needs education, to new approaches to curriculum subjects such as literacy, science, and mathematics, and to the educational environment of the museum.

Author : Kieran Egan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Imagination in children
ISBN : OCLC:1284935222

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Imagination in Teaching and Learning by Kieran Egan Pdf

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.

Author : Hugo, Wayne
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331018

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Boundaries of the Educational Imagination by Hugo, Wayne Pdf

The educational imagination is the capacity to think critically beyond our located, daily experiences of education. It breaks away from the immediacy of personal understanding by placing education within wider, deeper and longer contexts. Boundaries of the Educational Imagination develops the educational imagination by answering six questions: What happens when we expand continuously outwards from one school to all the schools of the world?; What happens if we go inside a school and explore how its material equipment has changed over the past 300 years?; What is the smallest educational unit in our brain and how does it allow an almost infinite expansion of knowledge?; What is the highest level of individual development we can teach students to aspire towards?; What role does education play in a world that is producing more and more complex knowledge increasingly quickly?; How do small knowledge elements combine to produce increasingly complex knowledge forms? Each question goes on a journey towards limit points in education so that educational processes can be placed within a bigger framework that allows new possibilities, fresh options and more critical engagement. These questions are then pulled together into a structuring framework enabling the reader to grasp how this complex subject works.

Author : Susan Florio-Ruane,Julie deTar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135689445

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Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination by Susan Florio-Ruane,Julie deTar Pdf

Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn about culture, literacy, and education in their own and others' lives, and as a form of conversation and literature-based work that might be sustainable and foster teachers' comprehension and critical thinking. Dr. Florio-Ruane's role in the book clubs merged participation and inquiry. For this reason, she blends personal narrative with analysis and description of ways she and the book club participants explored culture in the stories they told one another and in their responses to published autobiographies. She posits that autobiography and conversation may be useful for teachers not only in constructing their own learning about culture, but also, by doing so, in participating in the transformation of learning within the teaching profession.