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Book SynopsisIn this book, award-wining educator Kieran Egan shows how we can transform the experience of schooling in K 12 classrooms and help students become more knowledgeable and more creative in their thinking. A child's journey through school begins when they are not yet literate and ends when they are capable of complex, abstract thinking.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Imagination Underfoot xi
Chapter One: A Tool Kit for Learning 1
Story, Metaphor, Binary opposites, Rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, Jokes and humor, Mental imagery, Gossip, Play, Mystery, Embryonic tools of literacy
Chapter One and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 39
Chapter Two: A Tool Kit for Literacy 77
Sense of reality, Extremes of experience and limits of reality, Association with heroes, Sense of wonder, Collections and hobbies, Knowledge and human meaning, Narrative understanding, Revolt and idealism, Changing the context, Literate eye, Embryonic tools of theoretic thinking
Chapter Two and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 109
Chapter Three: A Tool Kit for Theoretic Thinking 151
Sense of abstract reality, Sense of agency, Grasp of general ideas and their anomalies, Search for authority and truth, Meta-narrative understanding Chapter Three and a Half:
Examples in Everyday Classrooms 171
Conclusion: Imagination Every Day 209
Glossary 219
Appendix A: Mythic Framework 223
Appendix B: Romantic Framework 227
Appendix C: Philosophic Framework 231
Bibliography 235
The Author 237
Index 239
