Imaginative Approach to Teaching

Kieran Egan 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 The Educated Mind and Teaching as Storytelling.

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Imagination Underfoot xiChapter One: A Tool Kit for Learning 1Story, Metaphor, Binary opposites, Rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, Jokes and humor, Mental imagery, Gossip, Play, Mystery, Embryonic tools of literacyChapter One and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 39Chapter Two: A Tool Kit for Literacy 77Sense 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 thinkingChapter Two and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 109Chapter Three: A Tool Kit for Theoretic Thinking 151Sense 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:Examples in Everyday Classrooms 171Conclusion: Imagination Every Day 209Glossary 219Appendix A: Mythic Framework 223Appendix B: Romantic Framework 227Appendix C: Philosophic Framework 231Bibliography 235The Author 237Index 239