An imaginative approach to teaching.078797157X An imaginative approach to teaching. Egan, Kieran. Jossey-Bass 2005 251 pages $24.95 Hardcover LB1025 Citing the importance of imagination and emotion in a child's learning, Egan (education, Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University, main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver opened in 1989. , Canada) offers methods that can be used with K-12 students, specifically in learning language, literacy, and theoretic thinking. These cognitive tools are described semi-chronologically, from earlier to later ages. Egan eschews traditional developmental stages, and instead follows learning growth. Tools for language skills include story, metaphor, binaries, rhyme rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. , humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , imagery, play, and mystery. Specific tools employed in literacy are reality, sense of wonder, hero association, hobbies, sense of meaning and idealism idealism, the attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the senses. In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as , and narrative. Theoretic thinking involves abstract reality, agency, comprehension comprehension Act of or capacity for grasping with the intellect. The term is most often used in connection with tests of reading skills and language abilities, though other abilities (e.g., mathematical reasoning) may also be examined. of ideas and truth, and meta-narrative understanding. Egan incorporates sample lesson plans showing how to use these "tools" in the classroom. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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