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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Imaginative Science Education
    sub title: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education
  name:
    name part: Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 283 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an imaginative / creative activity. As such, the book can be seen as an original contribution of ideas relating to imagination and creativity in science education. The approaches discussed in the book are storytelling, the experience of wonder, the development of ‘romantic understanding’, and creative science, including science through visual art, poetry and dramatization. However, given the perennial problem of how to engage students (of all ages) in science, the notion of ‘aesthetic experience’, and hence the possibility for students to have more holistic and fulfilling learning experiences through the aforementioned imaginative approaches, is also discussed. Each chapter provides an in-depth discussion of the theoretical background of a specific imaginative approach (e.g., storytelling, ‘wonder-full’ science), reviews the existing empirical evidence regarding its role in the learning process, and points out its implications for pedagogy and instructional practices. Examples from physical science illustrating its implementation in the classroom are also discussed. In distinguishing between ‘participation in a science activity’ and ‘engagement with science ideas per se’, the book emphasizes the central role of imaginative engagement with science content knowledge, and thus the potential of the recommended imaginative approaches to attract students to the world of science.
  table of contents: Acknowledgement -- Foreword by Robert Yager -- Introduction -- Imaginative Thinking in Science and Science Education -- Engagement and Aesthetic Experience in Science Education -- Teaching for Romantic Understanding -- Narrative Thinking and Storytelling in Science Education -- Creative Science Education -- Wonder-full” Science Education -- “Artistic” Science Education -- Appendices.
  note: by Yannis Hadzigeorgiou.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Science education
  subject:
    topic: Teaching
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Science Education
  subject:
    topic: Learning & Instruction
  subject:
    topic: Teaching and Teacher Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 507.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319295268
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29526-8
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