An Imaginative Approach to Teaching

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Imagination Underfoot xi

Chapter One: A Tool Kit for Learning 1
Story, Metaphor, Binary opposites, Rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, Jokes and humor, Mental imagery, Gossip, Play, Mystery, Embryonic tools of literacy

Chapter One and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 39

Chapter Two: A Tool Kit for Literacy 77
Sense of reality, Extremes of experience and limits of reality, Association with heroes, Sense of wonder, Collections and hobbies, Knowledge and human meaning, Narrative understanding, Revolt and idealism, Changing the context, Literate eye, Embryonic tools of theoretic thinking

Chapter Two and a Half: Examples in Everyday Classrooms 109

Chapter Three: A Tool Kit for Theoretic Thinking 151
Sense of abstract reality, Sense of agency, Grasp of general ideas and their anomalies, Search for authority and truth, Meta-narrative understanding Chapter Three and a Half:

Examples in Everyday Classrooms 171

Conclusion: Imagination Every Day 209

Glossary 219

Appendix A: Mythic Framework 223

Appendix B: Romantic Framework 227

Appendix C: Philosophic Framework 231

Bibliography 235

The Author 237

Index 239