Fostering Imagination in Higher Education - 9781138089389

Name: Fostering Imagination in Higher Education - 9781138089389
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Fostering Imagination in Higher EducationDisciplinary and Professional Practices\nAuthor(s): Joy Whitton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138089389, 978-1138089389\nSynopsis\nImagination and creative teaching approaches are increasingly important across all higher education disciplines, not just the arts. Investigating the role of imagination in teaching and learning in non-arts disciplines, this book argues that a lack of clarity about what imagination looks like in higher education impedes teachers in fostering their students creativity.\n\nFostering Imagination in Higher Education tells four ethnographic stories from physics, history, finance and pharmaceutical science courses, analytically observing the strategies educators use to encourage their students imagination, and detailing how students experience learning when it is focussed on engaging their imagination. The highly original study is framed by Ricoeu.