Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Edited by Kieran Egan, Annabella I. Cant, Gillian Judson
To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
Description
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate education needs to take seriously the task of evoking wonder about the content of the curriculum and to show how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms. The authors do not wax flowery; they present strong arguments based on either research or precisely described experience, and demonstrate how this argument can be seen to work itself out in daily practice. The emphasis is not on ways of evoking wonder that might require virtuoso teaching, but rather on how wonder can be evoked about the everyday features of the math or science or social studies curriculum in regular classrooms.
Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
I. The nature of wonder and its educational uses
1. Our Hearts Leap Up: Awakening Wonder within the Classroom. Laura Piersol
2. Wow! What if? So what? Education and the imagination of wonder: Fascination, possibilities and opportunities missed. Dave Trotman
3. Reclaiming the Value of Wonder in Science Education. Yannis Hadzigeorgiou
4. Wondering about wonder in mathematics. Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis
II. Engaging wonder in everyday classrooms
5. Opportunity to teach: The joy of teaching what you know deeply, find fascinating, and want to share. David C. Berliner
6. Renewing the sense of wonder in the minds of high school and college students. Keiichi Takaya
7. From “unknown questions” begins a wonderful education: Kyozai-Kaishaku and the dialogic classroom. Kiyotaka Miyazaki
8. The talking table: sharing wonder in early childhood education. Fleur Griffiths
9. The Upside Down Picnic Table: The Wonder of Learning through Improvisational Play. Lynn Fels
III. Dimensions of educational wonder
10. Wonder, awe and teaching techniques. Kieran Egan
11. Wonder for Sale. Annabella Cant
12. An Educational Leadership Perspective: managing and revealing the DNA of wonder in teaching and learning. Di Fleming
13. The keys to wonder-rich Science Learning. Lynne Bianchi
14. Creative Imagination in Play- Worlds: Wonder-Full Early Childhood Education in Finland and the United States. Pentti Hakkarainen & Beth Ferholt
15. Wonder as a gateway experience. Thomas W Nielsen & Bronwen Haralambous
About the Authors
Author Bio
Kieran Egan is Professor and Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, and Director, Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Anabella Cant is a PhD candidate in the Curriculum Theory and Implementation Program, and Associate Director, Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Gillian Judson is Lecturer and Director, Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
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Name: Wonder-Full Education: The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Kieran Egan, Annabella I. Cant, Gillian Judson. For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general...
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