Grad – complete w/funny hat & secret handshake
- Grad – complete w/funny hat & secret handshake
Without the imagination there is no learning.
I have a Master’s degree in Education. My area is curriculum and instruction, specifically, a branch called Imaginative Education.
While some folks immediately consider the role of imagination in creative endeavours, Imaginative Education seeks to explain how people learn, and how we develop the thinking tools needed to learn.
Surprise! It is our imaginations that drive learning. Unfortunately, we aren’t paying attention to the great “thinking heroes” of history: Leonardo da Vinci, Buckminster Fuller, and Albert Einstein, who all combined amazingly creative thinking with enthusiastically practical science. These men (the women are there, but their names are not the ones we recognize) had highly developed thinking skills. The tools that the imagination uses to think and learn were superlative.
I talk about the tools that the imagination uses. I talk about “thinking heroes” and what we can learn from them. I talk about the different types of understanding that are developed through the use of different cognitive tools.
I will also bring you information about the physical brain. Yes, we must engage the imagination to learn, but we have yet to touch an “imagination” in any way but figuratively. On the other hand, little animal brains, and even great big human brains are being poked, examined, and used in experiments at a remarkable pace – and the increase in understanding is exponential – as is our awareness of how little we really understand.
