Imagination in Teaching and Learning

It is widely believed that a child's imagination ought to be

stimulated and developed in education. Yet, few teachers

understand what imagination is or how it lends itself to

practical methods and techniques that can be used easily in

classroom instruction. In this book, Kieran Egan--winner of

the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his work on

imagination--takes up where his Teaching as Story Telling

left off, offering practical help for teachers who want to

engage, stimulate, and develop the imaginative and learning

processes of children between the ages of eight to fifteen. This book is not about unusually imaginative students and

teachers. Rather, it is about the typical student's

imaginative life and how it can be stimulated in learning,

how the average teacher can plan to achieve this aim, and how

the curriculum can be structured to help achieve this aim.

Slim and determinedly practical, this book contains a wealth

of concrete examples of curriculum design and teaching

techniques structured to appeal specifically to children in

their middle school years.