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Dennis Atkinson – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2025
This paper addresses the importance of creativity, speculative imagination and the production of novelty in pedagogic practices in art education and art practice. These terms refer to always incomplete assemblages or agencements of experiencing. Whitehead's ideas on imagination, speculation and propositions are linked with Stengers's work on…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creative Thinking, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Aesthetics
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A. Jonathan Eakle – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
This piece is about reading, and what reading can do. It is written from a tangled complex of arts, philosophies, and literatures as it moves across land, with sea, and into air, through the content and expressions of an art museum exhibition about migrations of human and non-human bodies. The complex is serialized, broken apart, and pierced with…
Descriptors: Reading, Art Expression, Exhibits, Creative Thinking
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Vlad Glaveanu; Penny Hay; Hannah McDowall; Tom Doust; Shannon Welles; Goldie Chaudhuri; Anne Pender; Mairéad Hurley – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2025
Ecologies of collective imagination involve creating and sharing imagination practice. This modest piece of research engaged 10 artists, environmentalists, and educators to think together about how nature can be a source and a driver of the imagination and sense of possibility for individuals and communities. Together we focused on the concept of…
Descriptors: Ecology, Cooperative Learning, Imagination, Creative Thinking
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Katch, Margaret – Schools: Studies in Education, 2021
As a three-year-old, Margaret Katch told stories about princesses in Vivian Paley's classroom. Now deep into adulthood, she reflects on how acting out these stories as a preschooler influenced her life.
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Story Telling, Imagination, Creative Thinking
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Sajad Kabgani – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
The insistence on knowledge accumulation in modern educational discourses has led to the formation of exclusive dichotomies in various forms, most tangibly observable in the division of people into 'knowledgeable' and 'unknowledgeable'. What underlies this dichotomy is a conception of rationality based on which knowledge is seen as an 'instrument'…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Knowledge Level, Learning, Social Distance
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Seshadri Reddy Varikasuvu; Lavanya Ranvee; Saurabh Varshney; Himel Mondal – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Competency-based physiology and biochemistry education can benefit from the creative integration of imaginative narratives into traditional teaching methods. This paper proposes an innovative model using a pen and palm analogy to visualize enzyme function theories. The pen (substrate) must fit snugly into the palm (enzyme's active site) for…
Descriptors: College Students, Physiology, Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Thorat, Santosh Jaising – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
In Stieglerian fashion, this paper is concerned with both the loss and the re-creation of knowledge in the field of architecture. The student of architecture must be the one who learns new tools and new forms of knowledge and this has profound implications and applicability for the philosophy of education as it is a question of the recuperation of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Architectural Education, Aesthetics, Risk
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Alessandro Gelmi – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
This article aims to delve into the theoretical perspective on imagination in education, focusing specifically on Imaginative Education theory. The approach involves a dual objective: critically analyzing the limitations and specific potentials of Imaginative Education to stimulate contemporary discourse on imagination in education and using it as…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creative Thinking, Interdisciplinary Approach, Psychology
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Ehrenhard Skiera – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
The main concern of this article is to introduce the concept of the authentic gesture as a vital, largely self-determined expression of the child and to make it fruitful for art education. Because of the assumed educational importance of the concept, some hints to other learning areas will also be given. This should be done from a historical and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Intellectual Freedom, Imagination
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Shanks, Michael; Svabo, Connie – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The notion of scholartistry, hybrid scholarship-arts practice, is introduced by situating it in the academic literature on research methodology. The article offers dynamic, dialogical exemplification and demonstration; it takes the form of a conversation among the visitors to an imaginary exhibition of scholartistic artifacts. Several examples of…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Art, Problem Based Learning, Design
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Rosen, Yigal; Stoeffler, Kristin; Simmering, Vanessa – Journal of Intelligence, 2020
Although not generally included in classroom activities of the past, cultivating creative thinking is considered one of the core strands in future-focused learning in schools. Learning focused on creative thinking is uncommon in school, mainly due to a lack of consensus on the definition of the creative thinking competency and a lack of effective…
Descriptors: Imagination, Design, Creative Thinking, Formative Evaluation
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Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Exercise times can enhance a variety of child learning goals and especially help some children with attention span difficulties to concentrate better on class lessons. Specific ways for teachers to create exercise sessions are suggested and how teachers can use exercise times to promote new word learning, creative imagination, as well as pride in…
Descriptors: Exercise, Skill Development, Young Children, Attention Span
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Woodard, Jennie – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2019
The article examines how to incorporate issues of social justice and diversity in the honors classroom through critical imagination. Inclusion and diversity are among the five strategic pillars of honors education, but the challenge is to create space for social justice as an academic inquiry. This article describes an honors project where…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Imagination, Honors Curriculum, Social Justice
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Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis – Education Sciences, 2019
The main purpose of this paper is to articulate and defend an updated concept of liberal education. To achieve this purpose, the paper has attempted two things. First, to provide a meaning for the notion of liberal education by drawing upon, and discussing briefly, the ideas of three British philosophers, namely, Paul Hirst, Richard Stanley…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Theories, Definitions, Epistemology
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Bomford, Kate – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
This essay considers the relative merits of critical writing and writing in role as a means of enabling and assessing students' responses to literary texts. Drawing largely on the author's experience of teaching "Frankenstein," it argues that the distinction between critical and creative writing is not as absolute as is sometimes…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Student Reaction, Student Attitudes, Creative Writing
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