Book chapter
Wonder as a Gateway Experience
Wonder-full education : the centrality of wonder in teaching and learning across the curriculum, pp.399-437
Routledge
2014
Abstract
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate education needs to take seriously the task of evoking wonder about the content of the curriculum and to show how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms. The authors do not wax flowery; they present strong arguments based on either research or precisely described experience, and demonstrate how this argument can be seen to work itself out in daily practice. The emphasis is not on ways of evoking wonder that might require virtuoso teaching, but rather on how wonder can be evoked about the everyday features of the math or science or social studies curriculum in regular classrooms.
Details
- Title
- Wonder as a Gateway Experience
- Authors
- Bronwen Haralambous (Author) - University of CanberraThomas W Nielsen (Corresponding Author) - University of Canberra
- Contributors
- Kieran Egan (Editor) - Simon Fraser UniversityAnnabella Cant (Editor) - Simon Fraser UniversityGillian Judson (Editor) - Simon Fraser University
- Publication details
- Wonder-full education : the centrality of wonder in teaching and learning across the curriculum, pp.399-437
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780203498507-23; 10.4324/9780203498507
- ISBN
- 9780203498507
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99681598202621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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