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Imagination and literacy : a teacher's search for the heart of learning
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Imagination and literacy : a teacher's search for the heart of learning

Author: Karen Gallas
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, ©2003.
Series: Practitioner inquiry series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In her newest book, teacher researcher and bestselling author Karen Gallas carefully investigates imagination in the classroom to understand its function in literacy learning. Using rich examples from her elementary classrooms, she proposes that imagination is a central, but untapped, component of learning across all subject areas -- language arts, science, social studies, and math. Getting to the heart of a theme  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karen Gallas
ISBN: 0807744069 9780807744062 0807744050 9780807744055
OCLC Number: 52509557
Description: ix, 181 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : moving imagination to the center --
Story time as a magical act --
pt. 1. The question --
Imagination as a question, a topic, a tool --
Observing imagination --
pt. 2. Building a literate identity --
Talking to ants : imagination and identity --
"I am the King Shabazz!" : appropriating a discourse through imaginative action --
Authoring --
pt. 3. Imagination in the real world --
Imagining a different world : sociocultural literacy --
Reclaiming, renaming, reimagining the classroom --
"Entering the rabbit hole."
Series Title: Practitioner inquiry series.
Responsibility: Karen Gallas.

Abstract:

"In her newest book, teacher researcher and bestselling author Karen Gallas carefully investigates imagination in the classroom to understand its function in literacy learning. Using rich examples from her elementary classrooms, she proposes that imagination is a central, but untapped, component of learning across all subject areas -- language arts, science, social studies, and math. Getting to the heart of a theme which has been a strong undercurrent in her previous books. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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