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Imagination, Waldorf, and Critical Literacies: Possibilities for Transformative Education in Mainstream Schools
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Shank, Monica – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
In the face of transmission-oriented national curricula, this study explores possibilities for claiming space for imagination, as 'the most powerful and energetic of learning tools' (Egan 1986), in early childhood education in mainstream Kenyan schools. Drawing from Egan's work on imagination and Cummins' Nested Pedagogical Orientations framework,…
Descriptors: Imagination, Critical Literacy, Early Childhood Education, Role