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Cooke, Robert W. – School Arts, 1976
Four prints were shown in order to illustrate the infinite possibilities for creating new photographic images from nature. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Definitions, Imagination, Photographs
Nicholson, David – Independent School Bulletin, 1972
In the form of engaging experiences, dramatics offer the student a better understanding of himself, of other people, of literature, and of life. (Author)
Descriptors: Acting, Dramatics, Imagination, Pantomime

Alexander, Lloyd – Childhood Education, 1971
Literature can stimulate creativity and imagination necessary for the development of personal awareness and social consciousness. (NH)
Descriptors: Creativity, Imagination, Individual Development, Literature Appreciation

Johnson, Roger A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980
Sensory image scores of blind and sighted adolescents were classified into seven sensory categories according to the Betts Questionnaire Upon Mental Imagery (shortened form). Blind adolescents were not restricted in the formation of visual images nor did the relative ordering of the sensory categories differ as a function of sight. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Imagination, Sensory Experience

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

Rosenberg, Marvin – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1976
This research concerns itself with making the imagination work; with developing, in university playwrights, a freedom to fantasy; and with encouraging them to give artistic form to their fantasies. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Creativity, Fantasy, Imagination

Bramwell, Peter – Children's Literature in Education, 2002
Considers how both the device and John Masefield's book called "The Box of Delights" construct a vision of childly imagination by playing with genre and through the use of myth and magic. Considers how magic is a plot maneuver, but is more profoundly a metaphor for the child making sense of the world. (SG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Imagination, Mythology
Egan, Kieran – Phi Delta Kappan, 2003
Argues that learning should begin with a student's imagination rather than starting with what he or she already knows. Does not suggest abandoning a student's prior knowledge, however. (PKP)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Imagination, Learning Theories

Hine, Robert V. – History Teacher, 1988
Recounts the reasons historians become novelists, citing several examples as well as the author's personal experience. Fictionalized accounts allow the historian a freedom not permitted when historical accuracy and documentation are required. (LS)
Descriptors: Authors, Historians, History, Imagination

Dorner, Robert; Kowalski, Ludwik – Technology Teacher, 1992
In the K. Ikatura method used in Japan, an instructor describes an experiment with a number of possible outcomes. Students record and discuss their predictions; the experiment is performed and the results analyzed. This method creates constructive cognitive conflict and provides structure for imagination. (SK)
Descriptors: Experiments, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Imagination
Wang, Ranxiao Frances – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2005
Traditional models of perspective change problems (i.e., judgment of egocentric target directions from an imagined perspective) assume that performance reflects one's ability to imagine the new perspective. Three experiments investigated whether advanced cuing of the imagination direction improves performance in an imagined self-rotation task. RT…
Descriptors: Imagination, Experiments, Undergraduate Students, Cues
Wagner, Tony – Educational Leadership, 2008
In interviews with several hundred business, nonprofit, philanthropic, and education leaders, the author identified seven "survival skills" that 21st century students need to succeed as workers and citizens: (1) critical thinking and problem-solving; (2) collaboration and leadership; (3) ability and adaptability; (4) initiative and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Interviews, Problem Solving, Leadership
Tabizi Pythons and Clendro Hawks: Using Imaginary Animals to Achieve Real Knowledge about Ecosystems
Rockow, Michael – Science Scope, 2007
The author describes how he used to teach a unit on food webs and ecosystems using actual food webs as models. However, the models used by the author tend to be either too simplistic or too complicated for his students. A few years ago, he solved these problems by making up his own food web, complete with invented plants and animals. The model has…
Descriptors: Animals, Ecology, Science Instruction, Models
Strong-Wilson, Teresa – International Education, 2007
This article considers the place of stories in literacy formation and thus, in producing colonialism, as well as the role they can play in decolonizing formation; a story is understood to provide a perceptual horizon that influences how the teacher carries him/herself in the world. Eighteen white teachers, living in Canada, were invited to be part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity, Childrens Literature
Costantino, Tracie – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2007
In this article I will present case study research of an elementary school art teacher who provided both verbal and visual means for students to respond to art while on a museum field trip. I will focus on how the students' drawings from memory and artwork in their sketchbooks present compelling articulations of their understandings of certain…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Visualization, Art, Art Teachers