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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Engaging Imagination; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; How Should You Use This Book?; What This Book Is Not; Overview of Chapters; Audience; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Part 1 Understanding the Role of Imagination in Learning; 1 How Engaging the Imagination Fosters Reflective Thinking; The Three Axioms of Student Engagement; Engagement Is Personally Meaningful; Learning "Sticks" When Multiple Methods Engage the Imagination; Students Are Engaged When Something "Jerks" Them Out of the Routines; How Does Engaging Imagination Connect to Reflection?; What Does It Mean to Be Reflective? |
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Fourteen Elements of Reflective Thinking in StudentsCreativity and Playfulness Are Important; A Degree of Student Freedom Is Essential; The Hegemony of Written Reflection Must Be Challenged; A Degree of Resistance Is Normal; Reflection Can Be Used for Control; Summary; 2 Introducing Reflective Thinking to Students; Clarifying the Elements of Reflective Thinking; Modeling Reflectivity: Examples for Each Reflective Thinking Process; Using Students' Testimony; Student Resistance to Reflective Control; Summary; 3 Connecting Creativity, Imagination, and Play; Emotional Intelligence |
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The Place of Creativity in Student and Teacher ReflectionDefining Creativity; Connecting Imagination to Creativity; The Meaning of Play; Summary; Part 2 Engaging Imagination Tools and Techniques; 4 Using Visual Methods of Teaching and Learning; Losing Sight of Seeing: A Rural Walk; Visual Intelligence and Visual Literacy; The Duck/Rabbit: "Seeing As"; Learning to See Visual Culture: An Urban Walk; Sketchbooks and Look Books; Paper Tearing as Visual Representation; The Plait; LSD; Drawing and Collaging Discussion; Visual Dialogue; Visualization Techniques; Summary |
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5 How Story and Metaphor Provoke Reflective ThinkingCreative Reflection and Metaphor; Roller Coasters, Rainbows, and Other Learning Metaphors; Dyslexia: The Bully in My Playground; Tell Us about It; Diagrams as Story Triggers: The Change Curve; Timelines; Metaphor as Parable; Summary; 6 Playing Seriously: Legos and Labyrinths; The Concept of Lego Serious Play; Lego Serious Play in Action; Opening the Workshop; Beginning Metaphorical Meaning Making; Creating Their Own Models; Building Cohesion; Students' Responses; Labyrinths for Creative Reflection |
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Alex Irving: Challenges and Opportunities in Labyrinth LearningSummary; 7 Playing with Space: Pods and Patchwork; Learning Spaces; Hello Cloud 9: The Reflective Pod; The Spliff Bunker; Other Forms of Reflective Pod Engagements; Postcards and Patchworks; Quercus genius; Spatial Design and Inner/Outer Space; Inner Reflection on Outer Presentations; Summary; 8 Asking Powerful Questions; Personal Construct Psychology and Creative Reflection; Self-Characterization; Laddering; "Light Touch" Laddering; Pyramiding; Clean Language; Practicing Clean Language: Caitlin Walker; Summary |
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How to nurture creativity in tomorrow's innovators-today's college students When asked what they want colleges to emphasize most, employers didn't put science, computing, math, or business management first. According to AAC & U's 2013 employer survey, 95% of employers give hiring preference to college graduates with skills that will enable them to contribute to innovation in the workplace. In Engaging Imagination: Helping Students Become Creative and Reflective Thinkers, two leading educators help college instructors across disciplines engage students in nurturing creat |
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9 Building Reflective Communities: Maps and Mazes |
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Print version record |
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Creative thinking -- Study and teaching
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Reflective learning -- Study and teaching
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Creative thinking -- Study and teaching
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brookfield, Stephen D
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| ISBN |
9781118836118 |
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1118836111 |
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