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Becker, Peter – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2007
Adventure is a playful pacemaker for real border crossings from reality to possibility; it can, from a benevolent point of view, be the trigger for individual changes of reality, a provider of impulses for the development of self. Confronted with the unpredictability of the wilderness, the turbulences of torrents, the chaotic state of the oceans,…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Philosophy, Imagination
Mardirosian, Gail Humphries; Lewis, Yvonne Pelletier – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Professors from American University and artists and educators from Imagination Stage, a children's theater and arts-education organization in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, have combined their intellectual and artistic strengths over the past 12 years to create an arts-integrated educational program for elementary and secondary schools throughout the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Imagination, Visual Arts, Art Education
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Marginson, Simon – Educational Theory, 2008
In this essay, Simon Marginson focuses on self-determining academic freedom in universities, and especially the conditions and drivers of the radical-creative imagination that is manifest in sudden intellectual breaks in knowledge. Marginson's objective is to establish foundations in political philosophy for a sociological study of the effects of…
Descriptors: Imagination, Academic Freedom, Creative Thinking, College Environment
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Halpern, Faye – College English, 2008
Traditionally, we English faculty have warned our students against simply identifying with a literary work's characters. For us, such attachments constitute "reading badly." But we engage in identifications, too, including ones with the work's author. A consideration of critical responses to "Benito Cereno" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" enables us to…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Critical Reading
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den Heyer, Kent; Fidyk, Alexandra – Educational Theory, 2007
The historical fiction novel straddles the factual and the fictive recreation of past motivations that animate historical events. Through reading a work of historical fiction, Ursula Hegi's novel "Stones from the River," Kent den Heyer and Alexandra Fidyk offer a theoretical consideration of the following questions and their classroom…
Descriptors: Novels, Imagination, Ethics, History Instruction
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Fabbi, Jennifer; Johnson, Amy – Journal of Children's Literature, 2007
With her recent book, "Paint the Wind" (2007), hitting the shelves this fall, author Pam Munoz Ryan delivers a welcome addition to the 25 plus books she has written for young people, including her award-winning novels "Esperanza Rising" (2000) and "Riding Freedom" (1998) and picture books "Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride" (1999) and "When Marian…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Novels, Authors
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Jorgensen, Estelle R. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2006
The author states that among the various approaches to music education, her dialectical and epistemological view offers a way of thinking about music and education and deciding how to go forward in teaching and learning music. In this article, she shows how this particular philosophical perspective can play out in teaching for the development of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Music, Music Education, Imagination
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Molton, Warren L. – Journal of Poetry Therapy, 1996
Develops the concept of the prayer-poem as a method for spiritual search. Relates the process of the prayer-poem to Carl Jung's use of "active imagination" as a way of pushing the poetic image to a deeper level of meaning and usefulness: a window into the psyche (soul). (SR)
Descriptors: Fantasy, Imagination, Poetry
Robertson, Susan L. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
In his paper "Grassroots globalization and the research imagination", Arjun Appadurai challenges academics to develop ways of researching and engaging with the victims of globalisation. A key objective of Appadurai's is to sketch out the problematic and build up the terrain on which a democratisation of research about globalisation might…
Descriptors: Imagination, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Social Justice
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Thompson, Roger – College English, 2007
In this article, the author argues that Emerson repudiated the formalism of nineteenth century belletristic, mechanistic, reason-centered, American rhetoric influenced by Hugh Blair. Instead Emerson promoted a rhetoric with imagination at its center, which calls for civic duty. (Contains 33 notes.)
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Imagination, Rhetorical Invention, Rhetorical Criticism
Juhasz, Joseph B. – 1980
The paper examines the recurrent associations between imagining and creativity. The thesis of the paper is that the assumed connection between these two processes depends on their conceptualizations. Creativity is variously conceptualized as unitary or a binary process. Imagining is variously characterized as active or passive. These two…
Descriptors: Creativity, History, Imagination, Theories
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Harrison, J. Derek – Journal of General Education, 1980
Compares the passive experience of going to Disneyworld, which stultifies the imagination, sanitizes reality, and packages fantasy, with the more stimulating experience of reading the sections in Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel" that describes Altamont (i.e., Asheville, North Carolina) and serve to link imagination and life. (CAM)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Fantasy, Imagination
Novelli, Mario – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
In response to Appadurai's "Grassroots globalization and the research imagination", this paper explores some of the theoretical, ethical, methodological and practical issues of developing a "strong internationalisation" of research with and amongst grassroots globalisation movements. Drawing on five years of solidarity and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Imagination, Activism
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Kindelan, Nancy – Children's Theatre Review, 1985
Examines the philosophy and methods of Chekhov (1891-1955), director, teacher, and actor, whose style was devoted to awakening and inspiring the creative imagination of the actor and ultimately the audience. (PD)
Descriptors: Acting, Children, Imagination, Theater Arts
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Pfeiffer, Raymond S. – Educational Theory, 1979
A scientific definition of the meaning of human creative thought is pursued. (JD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Imagination
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