Engaging imagination and developing creativity in education /

Imagination is the source of creativity and invention. This volume 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 daily classrooms wi...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Egan, Kieran, Juddon, Gillian, Madej, Krystina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
Edition:2nd edition.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Part I: Imagination and Creativity
  • The TIEs That Bind
  • Dialectic Explication of Creativity
  • Contemporary Heroes and Students' Motivation for Learning
  • Using Metaphor as a Cognitive Tool to Teach for an Imaginative PoliticalConsciousness
  • Identifying Legitimate Tools for Learning
  • The Foundations of Imaginative Teacher Education
  • Somewhere in the Middle
  • Teacher as the Imaginative Learner
  • Text and Image
  • Part II: Imagination and Creativity
  • The Interface between the Arts and the Sciences from an EducationalPerspective
  • Imagination in the Development of Speech and Literacy
  • Inclusive Curriculum Design through Narrative and ImaginativeInteractive Learning Environments
  • Narrative in Early Learning
  • Indigenous and Modern Epistemologies in the Learningof Mathematics
  • Gender and Achievement through the Socio-Cultural Lens
  • Bring us Back to Our Senses
  • Teaching as Game Playing
  • Imagination and Teacher Formation
  • Contributors.