ERIC Number: EJ1308714
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 16
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What Should Schools Do to Promote Wonder?
Oxford Review of Education, v47 n4 p439-454 2021
Wonder-full education recognises experiences of wonder as lying at the heart of learning and education. If we accept the premise that wonder is important for/in education, what should characterise wonder-full education? This paper clarifies what it is like to wonder, how the aims of wonder-full education are best described, and it discusses three dimensions of wonder-full education: the educators, the curriculum, and the ethos of the classroom and school. It is argued that the success of a wonder-full curriculum hinges on the capacities of the teacher, both her pedagogical tact and her ability to wonder herself.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation, Curriculum Design, Teacher Competencies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Characteristics, Perspective Taking, Critical Thinking, Psychological Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Children, Adults, Imagination, Creative Activities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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