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An Imaginative Approach to Teaching
Kieran Egan
ISBN: 978-0-7879-7157-1
Hardcover
272 pages
February 2005
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Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Imagination Underfoot.

Chapter One: A Tool Kit for Learning.
Story, Metaphor, Binary opposites, Rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, Jokes and humor, Mental imagery, Gossip, Play, Mystery, Embryonic tools of literacy.

Chapter One and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms.

Chapter Two: A Tool Kit for Literacy.
Sense 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.

Chapter Two and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms.

Chapter Three: A Tool Kit for Theoretic Thinking.
Sense 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.

Conclusion: Imagination Every Day.

Glossary.

Appendix A: Mythic Framework.

Appendix B: Romantic Framework.

Appendix C: Philosophic Framework.

Bibliography.

The Author.

Index.

 
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