{"product_id":"an-imaginative-approach-to-teaching-isbn-9780470928486","title":"An Imaginative Approach to Teaching","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eAn Imaginative Approach to Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Imagination Underfoot xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: A Tool Kit for Learning 1\u003cbr\u003eStory, Metaphor, Binary opposites, Rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, Jokes and humor, Mental imagery, Gossip, Play, Mystery, Embryonic tools of literacy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: A Tool Kit for Literacy 77\u003cbr\u003eSense 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: A Tool Kit for Theoretic Thinking 151\u003cbr\u003eSense 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:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamples in Everyday Classrooms 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Imagination Every Day 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Mythic Framework 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Romantic Framework 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Philosophic Framework 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Author 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eKieran Egan\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His work focuses on teaching practices that develop a child's imagination. Dr. Egan is recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award and a member of the National Academy of Education. He is also author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Educated Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTeaching as Storytelling\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003ean imaginative approach to teaching\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"As we come to expect from Kieran Egan, this book is imaginative, engaging, wise, and practical. A terrific resource for teachers at every level.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eNel Noddings\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eHappiness and Education\u003c\/i\u003e and Lee Jacks Professor of Education Emerita, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Kieran Egan's work on imagination and learning has addressed our needs as teachers to foster more creative thinking within our classrooms. Tapping into this creative energy has added a whole new level of fascination, not to mention fulfillment, to our 'middle years' teaching. We encourage all educators to use the book to put this unbelievable theory into practice in the near future!\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eAnne-Marie Dooner\u003c\/b\u003e, Peter Obendoerfer, Nicole Marie Kerbrat, and Principal Verland Hicks, middle school educators, Ecole Leila North Community School, Winnipeg, Manitoba\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988723089637,"sku":"NP9780470928486","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470928486.jpg?v=1761781335","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/an-imaginative-approach-to-teaching-isbn-9780470928486","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}