Imaginative Science Education: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education

This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an imaginative/creative activity. As such, the book can be seen as an original contribution of ideas relating to imagination and creativity in science education.
The approaches discussed in the book are storytelling, the experience of wonder, the development of ‘romantic understanding’, and creat...