Wonder-Full Education - The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching Learning Across Curriculum

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.

List of contents

CONTENTSI. The nature of wonder and its educational uses

About the author

Kieran Egan is Professor and Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, and Director, Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Summary

Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for to evoke wonder in children about the content of the curriculum and show shows how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms.

Product details

• Authors: Kieran Cant Egan
• Assisted by: Annabella Cant (Editor), Annabella I. Cant (Editor), Cant Annabella I. (Editor), Kieran Egan (Editor), Egan Kieran (Editor), Gillian Judson (Editor), Judson Gillian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2013
• EAN: 9780415820295
• ISBN: 978-0-415-82029-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Curriculum planning & development, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development