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Piirto, Jane – Education Sciences, 2021
This article contains 15 "takeaways" about how to teach organic creativity, from actual teachers with several hundred total years of experience. Teachers of English, physics, Advanced Placement Calculus, science, theater, the visual arts, dance, school administration, school counseling, educational psychology professing, world languages,…
Descriptors: Creativity, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Intuition
Lang Hearlson, Christiane – Religious Education, 2021
Global ecological crisis calls for humanity's "ecological conversion," as well as deconversion from consumerism as a faith system. Conversion involves the imagination, which suggests an important role for visual images in religious education for ecological conversion. Yet educational proposals for deconversion from consumer culture have…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teaching Methods, Imagination, Christianity
Grushka, Kathryn; Lawry, Miranda; Chand, Ari; Devine, Andy – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The image is the raw material of the twenty-first century. Images infiltrate all social and cultural spaces. Its digital-mediated realities drive communication, industry and knowledge. Images saturate life and adolescent learners are familiar with the participatory nature of image production and its social, educational and personal communicative…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Imagination, Imagery, Artists
Salas, Spencer; Williams, Brian Keith; Mraz, Maryann; Adrane, Soufiane – English Teaching Forum, 2021
For many secondary-level teachers working with adolescent language learners, one of the motivations for choosing English teaching as a profession is a shared love of reading short stories. At its best, entering a narrative is a sensory experience: engaged readers see, hear, and feel the words of a story and imagine themselves within its pages.…
Descriptors: Visualization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Stapleton, Andrew J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
In response to the authors, I demonstrate how threshold concepts offer a means to both contextualise teaching and learning of quantum physics and help transform students into the culture of physics, and as a way to identify particularly troublesome concepts within quantum physics. By drawing parallels from my own doctoral research in another area…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Science Education, Imagery
Judson, Gillian – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
This article explores how mental imagery evoked from words might enhance the learning of cross-curricular content and how it may help cultivate students' "ecological understanding": that deep sense of connection to a living world and the care and concern to live differently within it. With reference to Elliott Eisner's and Kieran Egan's…
Descriptors: Imagery, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Imagination
Marino, Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines the role of metaphorical language in early Buddhist literature through the lens of two previously unpublished Gandhari sutras on a manuscript from the Robert Senior Collection. At the microscopic level, I offer an edition, translation, and textual analysis of a Buddhist manuscript containing two Sa?yuktagama-type sutras…
Descriptors: Buddhism, Literature, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
Rudolph, Sophie; Wright, Susan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This article examines the role that drawing can play in enabling children and young people to theorize concepts of time. In two, independent Australian research projects, children aged between 5 and 8 years were asked to respond to the question, "What might the future be like?", while 12-14 year olds were asked, "What does history…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Time, Children, Early Adolescents
Muir, Christine; Dörnyei, Zoltán – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
Vision, that is, the mental representation of the sensory experience of a future goal state (involving imagination and imagery), is currently at the forefront of motivational innovation, and in recent years it has been seen increasingly more often in the motivational tool kit of practicing language teachers. Theories such as Dörnyei's L2…
Descriptors: Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Imagination, Imagery
Garner, Alison M. – Teaching Music, 2011
Only a few of the author's music students are dedicated to music as a possible career. Most squeeze their lessons in between soccer tournaments and play practices, homework and a social life. As their only musical outlet, the author feels a double responsibility. Her goal is to open children's minds and hearts to the world of music--for them to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Imagery, Imagination
Grogness, Mary Mercer – Elementary English, 1974
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Haiku, Imagery, Imagination
Khatena, Joe – 1975
Suggested are ways to stimulate imagination, creativity, and imagery in children. Recommended for developing imagination are the thinking strategies of breaking away from the usual and commonplace, restructuring familiar elements, and synthesizing elements. Discussed are the production of creative analogies (such as personal, direct, symbolic, and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted

Galyean, Beverly-Colleene – Educational Leadership, 1983
Teaching with imagery can help students focus on lessons, retain information, improve psychomotor skills, and accept themselves and others. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Fantasy, Imagery

Ungaro, Don – Clearing House, 1982
Describes the development of a program that used fantasy characters and images to improve the spelling of children. (FL)
Descriptors: Fantasy, Imagery, Imagination, Memory

Lowenfels, Manna – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1979
The article describes two one-hour sessions in image making, which serves as the foundation of the creative language arts program used by the author in teaching poetry and writing to children (grades K through 5). (SBH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
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