Open AccessThe Pedagogy of the Imagination
Author(s) -
Michael Armstrong
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
learning landscapes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1913-5688
DOI - 10.36510/learnland.v2i2.293
Subject(s) - scrutiny , curriculum , reading (process) , interpretation (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , pedagogy , quality (philosophy) , action (physics) , psychology , sociology , aesthetics , epistemology , art , philosophy , linguistics , political science , law , machine learning , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics
The author takes an essay on the imagination by Italo Calvino as the cue for a reconsideration of the role of imagination in children’s thought and action and its educational implications. He emphasizes the value of interpretation, or critical scrutiny, as foremost among a teacher’s skills and central to curriculum design, teaching method and educational assessment, demonstrating the quality of children’s imaginative work, and how to value it, by means of a close reading of an eight year old’s brief med- itation on coming to school for the first time.