[Here is a book you might be interested by a Canadian colleague and friend of the Adventure Author team]
NEW
from Cambridge Scholars Press
Engaging
Imagination and Developing Creativity in Education
Edited
by Kieran Egan and Krystina Madej
14
essays from authors around the world that explore imaginative understanding and
how to teach children "to think creatively, to be innovative,
enterprising, and capable" in today's challenging world. Topics
include first "theories of development, imagination, and creativity"
followed by discussions of new approaches to broader
educational issues such as responsible citizenship, gender, and special
needs education, to curriculum subjects such as literacy, science, and
mathematics, and to important educational environments such as the museum.
URL to Cambridge Scholars Press
http://www.c-s-p.org//Flyers/Engaging-Imaginations-and-Developing-Creativity1-4438-1763-5.htm
Also available at Amazon.com.
From the Back Cover
Engaging
Imagination and Developing Creativity in Education
Editors: Kieran Egan and Krystina Madej
Imagination is the Source of Creativity and Invention!
This series of essays has been collected expressly to bring readers new
ideas about imagination and creativity in education that will both stimulate
discussion and debate and also contribute practical ideas for how to infuse our
daily classrooms with imaginative activities. In a world that values creative
innovation, it is distressing that our schools are dominated by an educational
paradigm that pays too little attention to engaging the imagination and
emotions of students in the curriculum and the worlds challenges that the curriculum
is designed to prepare students to meet. The ability of children to think
creatively, to be innovative, enterprising, and capable, depends greatly on
providing a rich imagination-based educational environment. It is only when we
consider the imagination a vital component of our lives and one of the great
workhorses of learning that we recognize the importance of adding the
imaginative to the study of the affective, cognitive, and physical modes of our
development. Doing so fills a gap that has led to incomplete accounts of
childrens development, their subsequent learning needs, and indeed, how to
fulfill these needs in educational environments.
This discussion, about the importance of imagination and
creativity in education, has been taken up by researchers and educators around
the world. It is represented here by writings from authors from Brazil, Canada,
China, Denmark, Italy, Israel, Japan, and Romania. In the first part of this
book these authors explore and discuss theories of development, imagination,
and creativity. In the second part they extend these theories to broader social
issues such as responsible citizenship, gender, and special needs education, to
new approaches to curriculum subjects such as literacy, science, and
mathematics, and to the educational environment of the museum.
Kieran Egan in a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon
Fraser University. He is currently Director of the IERG. His interests include
trying to sketch a somewhat new educational scheme based in part of Vygotskian
ideas, and also working out ways to help students and teachers find the regular
subjects of the curriculum more imaginatively engaging. He graduated from
London University with a B.A. in History, and from Cornell University with a
Ph.D. in Education.
Krystina Madej is an Adjunct Professor at the School of
Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. She was recently a
Postdoctoral Fellow with IERG. Her research is concerned with how narrative is
mediated by different technologies and creates meaning for us, in particular in
digital narrative and video games. She returned to academia after a successful
career in communications and design. She holds a BFA from Concordia University,
a MAPW from Kennesaw State University, and a PhD in Digital Narrative from
Simon Fraser University.
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