Wonder-full education : the centrality of wonder in teaching and learning across the curriculum / / edited by Kieran Egan, Annabella Cant, and Gillian Judson

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (462 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.102
• Soggetto topico: Learning, Psychology of; Wonder in children
• Persona (resp. second.): EganKieran
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt.1. The nature of wonder and its educational uses -- pt. 2. Engaging wonder in everyday classrooms -- pt. 3. Dimensions of educational wonder.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 a
• Titolo autorizzato: Wonder-full education
• ISBN: 0-415-82030-8; 1-135-05105-4; 0-203-49850-X; 1-135-05106-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779994903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II