Imaginative Approach to Teaching

Name: Imaginative Approach to Teaching
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ISBN: 9780787971571

ISBN-10: 078797157X

ISBN-13: 9780787971571

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kieran Egan

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In this book, award-winning educator Kieran Egan shows how we can transform the experience of K-12 students and help them become more knowledgeable and more creative in their thinking. At the core of this transformative process is imagination which can become the heart of effective learning if it is tied to education's central tasks. An Imaginative Approach to Teaching is a groundbreaking book that offers an understanding of how students' imaginations work in learning and shows how the acquisition of cognitive tools drives students' educational development. This approach is unique in that it engages both the imagination and emotions. The author clearly demonstrates how knowledge comes to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990

Kieran Egan, originally from Clonmel, Ireland, has published sixteen academic books. He holds two Ph.D.s in education, from Stanford & Cornell. He is a professor at Simon Fraser University & lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Imagination Underfoot


A Tool Kit for Learning


Story, Metaphor, Binary opposites, Rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, Jokes and humor, Mental imagery, Gossip, Play, Mystery, Embryonic tools of literacy


Examples in Everyday Classrooms


A Tool Kit for Literacy


Sense of reality, Extremes of experience and limits of reality, Association with heroes, Sense of wonder, Collections and hobbies, Knowledge and human meaning, Narrative understanding, Revolt and idealism, Changing the context, Literate eye, Embryonic tools of theoretic thinking


Examples in Everyday Classrooms


A Tool Kit for Theoretic Thinking


Sense of abstract reality, Sense of agency, Grasp of general ideas and their anomalies, Search for authority and truth, Meta-narrative understanding


Examples in Everyday Classrooms


Conclusion: Imagination Every Day


Glossary


Mythic Framework


Romantic Framework


Philosophic Framework


Bibliography


The Author


Index