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Direct linkKewalramani, Sarika; Veresov, Nikolay – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper discusses how multimodal creative inquiry might be conceptualised and implemented for children's meaning-making in science. We consider Halliday's (1978) and Vygotsky's (1987, 2016) theoretical ideas for showing how the most important characteristics of social semiotics are connected to imagination, play-based and creative inquiry for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Creative Thinking, Inquiry, Semiotics
Niklas Pramling; Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
This study presents the research that Pramling Samuelsson's keynote at the 32nd annual EECERA conference in Brighton 2024 drew upon. The study addresses an important but understudied feature of early childhood education and care for sustainability (ECECfS), namely engaging children in prospective or what-if thinking. Our reasoning is founded on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Imagination
Meng, Lingqi; Uhrmacher, P. Bruce – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
This study examines the sudden enlightenment sect of Chan (or Zen in Japanese terms) in order to understand various aspects of teaching and learning in the Buddhist tradition in China. To unravel Chan's educational import, we analyze its aesthetic features through a Western lens in order to highlight significant aspects of the teaching/learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Buddhism, Imagination, Sensory Experience
Imagination for Inclusion: Diverse Contexts of Educational Practice. Routledge Research in Education
Bland, Derek, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
"Imagination for Inclusion" offers a reconsideration of the ways in which imagination engages and empowers learners across the education spectrum, from primary to adult levels and in all subject areas. Imagination as a natural, expedient, and exciting learning tool should be central to any approach to developing and implementing…
Descriptors: Imagination, Learning Processes, Educational Practices, Learning Theories
De Cesare, Christie – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2002
An English-as-second-language teacher feels that everyone has creativity and imagination, and the teacher's role is to nurture those qualities. Drawing on the Foxfire core practices, she acknowledges and reinforces those moments when learners reveal their own unique insights into learning, and she facilitates exploratory and innovative thinking…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Educational Practices
