Product Description

In this stimulating book, Kieran Egan discusses what imagination really means for children, providing sample lesson plans to show teachers how to encourage effective learning through stimulating pupils' imagination.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1206489 in Books
• Published on: 1992-05-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 150 pages

From the Back Cover
Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject matter from their pupils' point of view. It is, however, difficult to define imagination in practice and even more difficult to make full use of its potential.
In this original and stimulating book, Kieran Egan, winner of the prestigous Grawemeyer award for education in 1991, discusses what imagination really means for children and young people in the middle years and what its place should be in the midst of the normal demands of classroom teaching and learning. He moves from a brief history of the ways in which imagination has been regarded over the years, through a general discussion of the links between learning and imagination, to sample lesson plans to show teachers how they might encourage effective learning through stimulating pupils' imaginations in a variety of curriculum areas, including maths, science, social studies and language work.