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Something Small, Something Simple: The Beginnings of Children's Conversations with the World
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Lewis, Richard – New Educator, 2012
This essay employs the images and voices of children to describe how their learning about the world is supported as they engage in experiences that invoke creativity and imagination. The author states his belief that this "imagining," this giving body and substance to the nature of "imagination" is one of the foundations of knowing, a means of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Self Concept, Imagination, Elementary School Students