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An Imaginative Approach to Teaching
Kieran Egan (Author)
9780470928486, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 27 July 2010
272 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.624 kg
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 life in students' minds if it is introduced in the context of human hopes, fears, and passions. To facilitate this new educational approach, the book includes a wide variety of effective teaching tools - such as story, rhythm, play, opposition, agency, and meta-narrative understanding - that value and build upon the way children understand their experiences. Most important, Egan provides frameworks for lesson planning and more than a dozen sample lessons to show how teachers can use these tools to awaken intelligence and imagination in the classroom.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Imagination Underfoot xi Chapter One: A Tool Kit for Learning 1 Chapter One and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 39 Chapter Two: A Tool Kit for Literacy 77 Chapter Two and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 109 Chapter Three: A Tool Kit for Theoretic Thinking 151 Examples in Everyday Classrooms 171 Conclusion: Imagination Every Day 209 Glossary 219 Appendix A: Mythic Framework 223 Appendix B: Romantic Framework 227 Appendix C: Philosophic Framework 231 Bibliography 235 The Author 237 Index 239
Story, Metaphor, Binary opposites, Rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, Jokes and humor, Mental imagery, Gossip, Play, Mystery, Embryonic tools of 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
Sense of abstract reality, Sense of agency, Grasp of general ideas and their anomalies, Search for authority and truth, Meta-narrative understanding Chapter Three and a Half:
Subject Areas: Education [JN]
