Boundaries of the educational imagination / Wayne Hugo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hugo, Wayne, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2015.

Summary:

Boundaries of the Educational Imagination develops the educational imagination by answering six questions: What happens when we expand continuously outwards from one school to all the schools of the world?; What happens if we go inside a school and explore how its material equipment has changed over the past 300 years?; What is the smallest educational unit in our brain and how does it allow an almost infinite expansion of knowledge?; What is the highest level of individual development we can teach students to aspire towards?; What role does education play in a world that is producing more and more complex knowledge increasingly quickly?; How do small knowledge elements combine to produce increasingly complex knowledge forms? Each question goes on a journey towards limit points in education so that educational processes can be placed within a bigger framework that allows new possibilities, fresh options and more critical engagement. These questions are then pulled together into a structuring framework enabling the reader to grasp how this complex subject works. - Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

All the schools of the world

Unpacking classrooms

How the 'brain' learns

Charting the space between demons and angels

History of the world in a child

From one-world classroom to one learning sequence

Conclusion: exercising the educational imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-171).

ISBN:

9781928331018

1928331017

OCLC:

938399669

Publisher Number:

99970373900