Imaginative Science Education The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education /

• Main Author: Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Teaching.; Science Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

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...

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.