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Halpin, David – London Review of Education, 2004
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), one of the most important critics of the English Romantic Period, held and published highly developed views about the nature of the creative imagination, the function of criticism and what it means to be truly learned. Although he never advanced an explicit theory of education, least of all one about the purposes of…
Descriptors: Imagination, Criticism, Intellectual History, Profiles
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Trotman, Dave – Teaching Education, 2005
Despite an apparent renaissance of interest in the creative and emotional in English education there remains a paucity of research in the province of teacher interpretations of pupils' creative, "affective", and imaginative activity. Based on the findings of an Ed D study conducted in six primary schools in central England, the genesis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phenomenology, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Dowling, Marion – Gifted Education International, 2002
This article discusses how to recognize young gifted children (ages 5-8), gifted education, and issues for teachers. Educators are urged to enable students to make their thinking visible, allow autonomy in learning, allow for imagination and time for deep level thinking, challenge able children, and help children to be self-critical. (Contains 4…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Martin, Fran – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2005
A common theme of the papers presented in this forum is that of the importance of listening to children's voices. They key messages conveyed by the authors are synthesised in this paper and the implications for the development of the subject and research within it are considered. This is then placed in the context of some recent doctoral research…
Descriptors: Geography, Doctoral Dissertations, Beginning Teachers, Doctoral Programs
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Burnard, Pamela; Craft, Anna; Cremin, Teresa; Duffy, Bernadette; Hanson, Ruth; Keene, Jean; Haynes, Lindsay; Burns, Dawn – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2006
Drawing on existing work in the area of creativity and early years education, this paper maps the process of an exploratory study which sought to identify what characterizes "possibility thinking" as an aspect of creativity in young children's learning. With the aim of developing a framework for identifying "possibility…
Descriptors: Creativity, Young Children, Learning, Teacher Researchers
Eyre, Gayner – 2001
This paper examines the place of reading in the acquisition of information capability among young people and considers the extent to which this is nurtured and aided by works of the imagination, whether in print or electronic form. Information capability presupposes a range of skills that, in addition to technological skills and the knowledge to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Georgiou, Andreas – Online Submission, 2005
This study is part of a larger research agenda, which includes future doctoral study, aiming to investigate the psychological processes of thought experiments. How do thought-experimenters establish relations between their imaginary worlds and the physical one? How does a technique devoid of new sensory input result to new empirical knowledge? In…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Intuition, Physics, Simulation
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
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