Wonder-Full Education : The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum (Hardcover)

CONTENTSPreface I.The nature of wonder and its educational uses 1. Our Hearts Leap Up: Awakening Wonder within the Classroom. Laura Piersol 2. Wow! What if? So what? Education and the imagination of wonder: Fascination, possibilities and opportunities missed. Dave Trotman 3. Reclaiming the Value of Wonder in Science Education. Yannis Hadzigeorgiou 4. Wondering about wonder in mathematics. Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis II.Engaging wonder in everyday classrooms 5. Opportunity to teach: The joy of teaching what you know deeply, find fascinating, and want to share. David C. Berliner 6.Renewing the sense of wonder in the minds of high school and college students. Keiichi Takaya 7. From “unknown questions” begins a wonderful education: Kyozai-Kaishaku and the dialogic classroom. Kiyotaka Miyazaki8. The talking table: sharing wonder in early childhood education. Fleur Griffiths 9. The Upside Down Picnic Table: The Wonder of Learning through Improvisational Play. Lynn Fels III.Dimensions of educational wonder 10. Wonder, awe and teaching techniques. Kieran Egan 11.Wonder for Sale. Annabella Cant 12.An Educational Leadership Perspective: managing and revealing the DNA of wonder in teaching and learning. Di Fleming 13.The keys to wonder-rich Science Learning. Lynne Bianchi 14.Creative Imagination in Play- Worlds: Wonder-Full Early Childhood Education in Finland and the United States. Pentti Hakkarainen & Beth Ferholt 15. Wonder as a gateway experience. Thomas W Nielsen & Bronwen Haralambous About the Authors