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Mizell, Hayes – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
In this article, the author talks about the significance of imagination as the first step on the road to school reform. In too many cases, teachers and administrators in public schools have downplayed imagination and given up its possibilities for furthering their work in new ways. Most school systems and schools do not really want educators to…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Imagination, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Lingard, Bob – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
This paper works in dialogue with Arjun Appadurai's paper, "Grassroots globalization and the research imagination" in an attempt to outline some necessary changes in researching education in the multiple contexts of globalisation. The paper provides two narratives as part of this project, which Appadurai calls the…
Descriptors: Imagination, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Ethics
Phillips, Shelley – 1986
This description of the development of imagination and fantasy in children outlines how children view their fantasies, imaginings, imaginary companions, and lies at different stages of development. Main topics include (1) the purposes of fantasy; (2) fantasy in preschool children; (3) imaginative games and dramas; (4) promotion or inhibition of…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Fantasy, Games, Imagination
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Smith, Jonathan Z. – Liberal Education, 1987
College education is essentially concerned with argumentation about interpretations. It depends on and trains for the capacity to assume different points of view simultaneously in order to interpret and predict, and it should celebrate playful acts of imagination. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Creative Thinking, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction
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Greene, Maxine – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1986
Penetrates educational rallying symbols and technological paradigms to celebrate Donald Schon's reflection-in-action approach to teaching. Advances an alternative, nonpartisan vision of American Education that fulfills promises, opens spaces for inquiry and dialog, and overcomes a spreading passivity. Affirms freedom, imagination, passion, and the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach, Imagination
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McGillis, R. F. – Children's Literature in Education, 1986
Offers a stimulating discussion of fancy and reality in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." (HOD)
Descriptors: Characterization, Childrens Literature, Fantasy, Humor
Aiken, Joan – Horn Book Magazine, 1984
A noted writer of fiction explores the role of imagination in the intellectual development of children and the need for imagination in various facets of daily lives and suggests ways of stimulating its use by children. (RBW)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Literature, Creative Thinking, Curiosity
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Black, David W. – Educational Theory, 1984
Giambattista Vico, an 18th-century Neapolitan philosopher, believed that, from children, adults could learn lessons they could not teach themselves. This learning, however, is predicated on the necessity that genuine childhood be allowed to exist and that logic and abstraction are not introduced to children too soon. (JMK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Delattre, Edwin – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1982
Development of intelligence and the imagination and provision of opportunities for purposeful investment of human talent through a liberal arts education may be the key to dealing with young people's boredom, which is an internal problem rather than an environmental one. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Creative Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Doll, Mary – Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 1982
Seeing archetypally is educationally significant. A curriculum that uses dream speech provides a new dispensation for learning about the self and culture. Teachers skilled in following images could connect students first to their prime dream images and then to cultural expressions of these images. (CJ)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Cultural Images, Curriculum Development, Educational Psychology
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Scott, Margaret – English in Australia, 1982
A study of English literature offers a knowledge of other minds and, more importantly, a process of "extending sympathy" or imaginative identification. (HOD)
Descriptors: English Literature, Higher Education, Imagination, Literary Criticism
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Mills, Beth Solow – Educational Leadership, 1983
Advocates encouraging children to write about what they know best--the rich fantasy worlds they create in play. (Author)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Elementary Secondary Education, Fantasy, Imagination
Heins, Ethel L. – Horn Book Magazine, 1980
Discusses and deplores two recent assaults on alleged sexism, racism, and prejudice against the handicapped in children's literary classics; states the author's agreement with another author's belief that people cannot legislate their literary heritage without wiping out most of the world's literature. (GT)
Descriptors: Censorship, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Imagination
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Emmison, Michael; Goldman, Laurence – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Examines the complex nature of pretense as portrayed in a popular UK children's television puppet show. Argues that animality of puppets is rendered opaque as their identities as children are linguistically accomplished, leading to a piece of representational art structured by moral and behavioral dictates typical of conventional adult-child…
Descriptors: Children, Fantasy, Foreign Countries, Imagination
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Eisner, Elliot W. – Language Arts, 2003
Argues that the absence of the arts in testing programs contributes to their marginalization. Considers the role of imaginative potential in determining what is important in schools. Considers what the arts have to do with literacy, that is, with the standard conceptions of reading and writing. Discusses transforming brains to minds, the arts as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Imagination
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