Engaging The Philosophic Imagination: Concept-Centered Teaching By Marlene Roseboom Since completing my studies in Imaginative Education (IE) some years back, I keep refining my curriculum to try to more effectively engage my students’ imaginations. This includes English 10, a course I have taught for several years. While I have already incorporated several separate IE units […]
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Teach Readers? Use These Tools To Fulfill Their Need For Adventure
Literacy Re-Wires The Imagination The punchline: It simply doesn’t make sense to teach non-readers and readers the same way. Their minds and imaginations work very differently. They are employing different cognitive tools to make sense of the world. Educators of readers (of any age), need to equip themselves with the tools of the literate mind to make whatever they […]
Guerilla Geography: Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education
By Thomas Larsen and Lisa Tabor Millsaps Greetings! We are Thomas Larsen and Lisa Tabor Millsaps, self-proclaimed guerilla geographers. Guerilla geography is a free-form approach to place-based education that encourages learners to be creative and unconventional in their exploration and understanding of their local environment by focusing largely on what is meaningful to them (Askins […]