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Engel, Susan – Child Development Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, 2006
The author of this article examines two powerful metaphors that have shaped the way people have thought about young children over the past 75 years or so, and argues that these two models are off base. These metaphors are "The Wild Child" and "The Little Scientist." The earlier of these two metaphors is that of the Wild Child, which hearkens back…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Figurative Language, Young Children, Imagination
Escobedo, Theresa H. – 1996
This descriptive study examined children's drawings and related language episodes to differentiate drawings exhibiting play from those exhibiting exploratory behavior. Drawings categorized as play were further analyzed to identify constructive and imaginary play. The play theory used as the basis of the study proposes that exploration and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Childrens Art, Exploratory Behavior
Stewart, Richard D. – 1996
This digest considers approaches to langugae arts teaching that are based on mythic or archetypal ways of experiencing and knowing. The Digest argues that such approaches address students' inner lives more directly than do the usual instructional methods such as whole language or student-centered instruction, and thus can help to promote…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Dreams, Elementary Secondary Education, Imagery
Bagley, Donna M.; Klass, Patricia H. – 1994
This study compared the quality of preschool children's sociodramatic play in classrooms that used centers for housekeeping role play with those that used centers for various other types of role play. Classroom play sessions in the preschool were videotaped biweekly over the course of the 1992-1993 academic year. These videotapes were then…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Dramatic Play, Imagination, Interaction
Witmer, J. Melvin – 1985
This book is intended to motivate persons working in the human and social service occupations toward fuller personal development as well as to improve professional competence. The first part discusses the process of becoming a more fully functioning person. Human potential, barriers to personal growth, self-fulfillment, and seeking pathways to…
Descriptors: Coping, Counselors, Creativity, Decision Making
Veale, Ann – 1992
In light of criticisms that many early childhood programs fail to engage children's minds, this study suggests that children need programs in which they can: (1) explore experience in visual ways; (2) experience aspects of different cultures; (3) extend their thinking; and (4) develop their imagination. That art and play can provide suitable…
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories
The Bookmark, 1990
This issue of "The Bookmark" presents 20 articles focusing on the theme that libraries foster imagination. The articles are: (1) "Imagination and the Magic of Libraries" (Elizabeth S. Manion); (2) "Powerful Partners--Discovery and Democracy, An Interview with Cynthia Jenkins" (Anne E. Simon); (3) "Fostering Imagination in Children" (Susan Lehr);…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Childrens Literature, Childrens Television, Creative Thinking
Jansen, Sue Curry – 1989
This paper builds upon the poetics of scientific discourse which provide extraordinary insights into the workings of the scientific imagination and into the ways it is both colonized and liberated by the medium of social and ideological transfer--metaphor. The paper examines what constructivism is teaching us about the role metaphor plays in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Discourse Analysis, Feminism, Imagination
Sinatra, Richard; Stahl-Gemake, Josephine – 1983
Curriculum leaders, program specialists, and teachers can intentionally arouse the activation of one hemisphere of the brain over the other through the use of right brain strategies in language learning. While most functions of the left hemisphere are concerned with convergent production (getting the right answer), functions of the right…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing, Divergent Thinking
Sutton-Smith, Brian – 1985
Well meaning parents and teachers often use children's play for the purposes of literacy and socialization. Yet, these attempts may deny play to children by subordinating play to some other concept. Evidence shows that even when parents play with their very young children they generally play games like shopping, cooking, and eating; whereas when…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Psychology, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs
McQueen, David – 1983
Imaging, or disciplined daydreaming, can be used in the composition class to expose students to their innate creativity, lessen writing anxiety, refresh memories before writing of personal experiences, and make impersonal subjects, such as historical events, vital and personal. Teachers can construct a classroom imaging session (which takes about…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Heuristics
Anderson, Philip M., Ed. – The Leaflet, 1984
The seven articles in this issue are concerned with the various uses of literature and literature study in the English curriculum, specifically to enhance thinking, teach composition, educate the emotions, develop reading comprehension and critical reading skills, explore and develop morals, and evoke a common culture. The titles of the articles…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Ethical Instruction
Alexander, Lloyd – Elementary English, 1974
The classics of our literature are still the best antidote to the abuses of language found everywhere around us. (JH)
Descriptors: Books, Censorship, Classics (Literature), Cognitive Processes
Croft, Martyn – 1979
Auditory imagination is used in this paper to describe a number of issues and activities related to sound and having to do with listening, thinking, recalling, imagining, reshaping, creating, and uttering sounds and words. Examples of auditory imagination in religious and literary works are cited that indicate a belief in an imagined, expected, or…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Koste, Virginia Glasgow – 1978
The processes involved in drama and the dramatic play of children are essentially the same in that they rely on an imitation of nature, involve a transformation of reality through imagination, connect seemingly irrelevant elements creatively, and bring a temporary, limited order to an emotional experience. When child's play is used as a basis for…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Children, Childrens Games, Creative Dramatics
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