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An imaginative approach to teaching |
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From the Inside Flap
How can we best help children through each stage of that
long educational journey from pre-literate kindergarten to complex abstract
thinking in high school?
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.
Teachers, teacher educators, and staff development professionals will find this
book to be an invaluable resource for understanding the theoretical underpinnings
and practical strategies for effectively engaging students' imaginations.
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