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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
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Lewis, Richard – Childhood Education, 1984
One of a series of statements focusing on children's basic rights, this brief essay asserts that all children need an environment where the act of imagining and its expression are respected and given visible outlets. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Imagination
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Lewis, Richard – Young Children, 1984
Asserts that all children need to have an environment where the act of imagining and imaginative expression are not only respected but are also given visible outlets. (RH)
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Imagination
Lewis, Richard – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1997
Questions why imagination is not brought into mainstream education as a cornerstone of learning and why education frequently makes students incapable of relating to what is alive and meaningful within themselves. Without imagination, it is impossible to experience the infinite qualities of our senses, nor to shape our thoughts and images of these…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education