| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 251 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-236) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : imagination underfoot -- A tool kit for learning : story, metaphor, binary opposites, rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, jokes and humor, mental imagery, gossip, play, mystery, embryonic tools of literacy -- A tool kit for literacy : 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 -- A tool kit for theoretic thinking : sense of abstract reality, sense of agency, grasp of general ideas and their anomalies, search for authority and truth, meta-narrative understanding -- Conclusion : imagination every day -- Appendix A. Mythic framework -- Appendix B. Romantic framework -- Appendix C. Philosophic framework. |
| Subject |
Teaching.
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Creative thinking -- Study and teaching.
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Imagination in children.
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| ISBN |
078797157X (alk. paper) |
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9780787971571 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2144426 |
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