عنوان

An imaginative approach to teaching

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

English

Title Proper

An imaginative approach to teaching

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

San Francisco, CA

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Jossey-Bass

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2005

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xviii, 251 p.; 24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references )p. 235-236( and index

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Kieran Egan

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1

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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, collectuins 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

Entry Element

، Teaching

Entry Element

Study and teaching ، Creative thinking

Entry Element

، Imagination in children

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Entry Element

Egan, Kieran

Relator Code

AU

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