“Imagine all the people living life in peace,
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will live as one."
( John Lennon, Imagine, 1971)
Creative thinking involves the students imaginations to generate ideas that have novelty and value. Imagination comes can be used in more than just visual, performing or language arts it can be used in math, science and social studies when solving problems or presenting information.
The Imaginative Education Research Group offers practical solutions tools and ideas for teachers their website also offers a comprehensive list of books and other publications that look at various aspects of imaginative education and using creativity in education. Imaginative education has been defined as “It is a new approach to education that effectively engages students’ imaginations in learning. The Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) has developed theories, principles, and practices designed to explain, describe, and implement this new approach” . The IERG is dedicated to understanding how students learn as well as helping teachers to get their students excited about learning and understand the meaning of the new knowledge, it works “by engaging students’ emotions and also, connectedly, their imaginations in the material of the curriculum. It is not new to point out that children’s thinking is most deeply and energetically engaged when their imagination and emotions are in play. What is new and unique about IE is that it offers a theory and a set of frameworks and techniques for actually accomplishing this within the mainstream academic curriculum.”
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will live as one."
( John Lennon, Imagine, 1971)
Creative thinking involves the students imaginations to generate ideas that have novelty and value. Imagination comes can be used in more than just visual, performing or language arts it can be used in math, science and social studies when solving problems or presenting information.
The Imaginative Education Research Group offers practical solutions tools and ideas for teachers their website also offers a comprehensive list of books and other publications that look at various aspects of imaginative education and using creativity in education. Imaginative education has been defined as “It is a new approach to education that effectively engages students’ imaginations in learning. The Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) has developed theories, principles, and practices designed to explain, describe, and implement this new approach” . The IERG is dedicated to understanding how students learn as well as helping teachers to get their students excited about learning and understand the meaning of the new knowledge, it works “by engaging students’ emotions and also, connectedly, their imaginations in the material of the curriculum. It is not new to point out that children’s thinking is most deeply and energetically engaged when their imagination and emotions are in play. What is new and unique about IE is that it offers a theory and a set of frameworks and techniques for actually accomplishing this within the mainstream academic curriculum.”