An imaginative approach to teaching / Kieran Egan.

Author/creator Egan, Kieran
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSan Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, ©2005.
Descriptionxviii, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion : imagination every day -- Appendix A. Mythic framework -- Appendix B. Romantic framework -- Appendix C. Philosophic framework.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-236) and index.
LCCN 2004020703
ISBN078797157X (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks LB1025.3 .E37 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold