1st Edition

Wonder-Full Education The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum

Edited By Kieran Egan, Annabella Cant, Gillian Judson Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep wonder alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate education needs to take seriously the task of evoking wonder about the content of the curriculum and to show how this can routinely be done... Read more
CONTENTSI. The nature of wonder and its educational uses

Biography

Kieran Egan is Professor and Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, and Director, Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada.