Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity in Education (2nd Edition).

Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Part I: Imagination and Creativity -- The TIEs That Bind -- Dialectic Explication of Creativity -- Contemporary Heroes and Students' Motivation for Learning -- Using Metaphor as a Cognitive Tool to Teach for an Imaginative PoliticalConsciousness -- Identifying Legitimate Tools for Learning -- The Foundations of Imaginative Teacher Education -- Somewhere in the Middle -- Teacher as the Imaginative Learner -- Text and Image -- Part II: Imagination and Creativity -- The Interface between the Arts and the Sciences from an EducationalPerspective -- Imagination in the Development of Speech and Literacy -- Inclusive Curriculum Design through Narrative and ImaginativeInteractive Learning Environments -- Narrative in Early Learning -- Indigenous and Modern Epistemologies in the Learningof Mathematics -- Gender and Achievement through the Socio-Cultural Lens -- Bring us Back to Our Senses -- Teaching as Game Playing -- Imagination and Teacher Formation -- Contributors.

Imagination is the source of creativity and invention. This volume of essays has been collected expressly to bring readers new ideas about imagination and creativity in education that will both stimulate discussion and debate, and also contribute practical ideas for how to infuse daily classrooms with imaginative activities. Researchers and educators around the world have taken up the discussion about the importance of imagination and creativity in education. This global relevance is represented here by writings from authors from Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Italy, Israel, Japan, and Romania. In the first part of the book, these authors explore and discuss theories of development, imagination, and creativity. In the second part, they extend these theories to broader social issues, including responsible citizenship, gender, and special needs education, and to new approaches to teaching curriculum subjects such as literacy, science, and mathematics, as well as to the educational environment of the museum. Since the first edition of this book, Imaginative Education (IE) has developed increasingly accessible strategies for teachers to routinely engage imagination in everyday practice. New essays for the second edition include discussions about increasing political consciousness, improving teacher education, and using mathematical evaluation in Part I, and phenomenological approaches to media education in Part II.

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