Wonder-Full Education
See our new book: Wonder-Full Education: The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum Hardcover Edited by Annabella I. Cant, & Gillian Judson. Just published by Routledge.
William E. Doll, Jr. Louisiana State University, welcomed the book by writing (on the cover) “On the cutting edge of books adopting an international perspective . . . Th multicultural perspective is valuable for curriculum scholars and teaches the world over. This book is revolutionary in the best sense of that word.”
Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, UK, wrote: “A novel, timely, and worthwhile book—full of wonder in itself. It is a manifesto for bringing awe and wonder back to education—and illuminating the poetic and inspirational in all subjects. A valuable and original addition to the literature, it will appeal to both beginning teachers and experienced researchers.”
On Amazon, Robert Bishop, on September 25, 2014, wrote:
“This book does not present a program or a new curriculum but proposes a wonderful paradigm transformation.This is one of the most scholarly books on this topic you can buy. It will change your thinking and may start a revolution in our educational system. This book does not present a program or a new curriculum but proposes a wonderful paradigm transformation.”
The publisher’s description of the book:
“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.”
CONTENTS
Preface
The nature of wonder and its educational uses
Our Hearts Leap Up: Awakening Wonder within the Classroom. Laura Piersol
Wow! What if? So what? Education and the imagination of wonder: Fascination, possibilities and opportunities missed. Dave Trotman
Reclaiming the Value of Wonder in Science Education. Yannis Hadzigeorgiou
Wondering about wonder in mathematics. Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis
Engaging wonder in everyday classrooms
Opportunity to teach: The joy of teaching what you know deeply, find fascinating, and want to share. David C. Berliner
Renewing the sense of wonder in the minds of high school and college students. Keiichi Takaya
From “unknown questions” begins a wonderful education: Kyozai-Kaishaku and the dialogic classroom. Kiyotaka Miyazaki
The talking table: sharing wonder in early childhood education. Fleur Griffiths
The Upside Down Picnic Table: The Wonder of Learning through Improvisational Play. Lynn Fels
III. Dimensions of educational wonder
Wonder, awe and teaching techniques. Kieran Egan
Wonder for Sale. Annabella Cant
An Educational Leadership Perspective: managing and revealing the DNA of wonder in teaching and learning. Di Fleming
The keys to wonder-rich Science Learning. Lynne Bianchi
Creative Imagination in Play- Worlds: Wonder-Full Early Childhood Education in Finland and the United States. Pentti Hakkarainen & Beth Ferholt
Wonder as a gateway experience. Thomas W Nielsen & Bronwen Haralambous
About the Authors
On Amazon, Robert Bishop, on September 25, 2014, wrote:
September 25, 2014
This is one of the most scholarly books on this topic you can buy. It will change your thinking and may start a revolution in our educational system. This book does not present a program or a new curriculum but proposes a wonderful paradigm transformation.
BOOK REVIEW
Review by Damien Morgan
Our Lady of the Southern Cross College
Australia
