Overview
- Provides strong theoretical basis for an alternative vision of curriculum
- Restores the power of imagination to educational practice
- Gives strong international support to the revival of imagination in education
- Synthesizes traditional and progressive education through using imagination
- Restores storytelling to its integral place in education
- Challenges the closed system of arbitrary standards and mind-numbing testing
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Book Title: Pedagogies of the Imagination
Book Subtitle: Mythopoetic Curriculum in Educational Practice
Editors: Timothy Leonard, Peter Willis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8350-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8281-8Published: 03 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7830-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8350-1Published: 11 June 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 270
Topics: Curriculum Studies, Educational Philosophy, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Professional & Vocational Education