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Overview
“Imagination is the Source of Creativity and Invention” - This series of essays has been collected expressly to bring readers new ideas about imagination and creativity in education that will stimulate discussion and debate. In a world that has leaped forward through creative innovation, an educational paradigm that seldom encourages thinking about the possibilities that can be, offers little to enable learners to respond to the world's challenges. The ability of children to think creatively, to be innovative, enterprising, and capable in their future lives, depends greatly on providing a rich imagination-based educational environment. It is only when we consider the imagination as a vital aspect of our being and add the imaginative to the study of the affective, cognitive, and physical modes of children's development do we fill the gap that has led to incomplete explanations of children's development, their subsequent learning needs, and indeed, how to fulfill these needs in educational environments.
This discussion about the importance of imagination and creativity in education, has been taken up by researchers and educators around the world. It is represented here by writings of authors from Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan, and Romania. In the first part of this book these authors explore and discuss different theories of development, imagination, and creativity. In the second part they extend these theories to broader social issues such as responsible citizenship, gender, and special needs education, to new approaches to curriculum subjects such as literacy, science, and mathematics, and to the educational environment of the museum.