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Imagination as a pedagogical necessity: Exploring policy, after-school literacy spaces, and preservice teacher education
Wed, December 4, 8:30 to 10:00am, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Floor: 7th, Augusta GSession Submission Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium explores the intersections between individual and social imagination and literacy learning from both policy and practice perspectives. We foreground ways in which higher education faculty can and are finding ways to create “good trouble” through innovative learning spaces where “the capacities to think, question, doubt, [and] imagine the unimaginable”(Giroux, 2018, p. 7) flourish. Teacher education can serve as a point of leverage for preparing pre-service teachers to include imagination in their pedagogy.
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Play-based learning and “science of reading”: The intersection of policy, practicality, and purpose in early childhood literacy - Nancy Teresa Walker, University of La Verne; Amy Ardell, Mount Saint Mary's University
Empowering elementary pre-service teachers: Building historical imagination and empathy through literature, role-play, and artifact interaction - Gretchen S Goode, University of Southern Mississippi; Kim Laing, Harding University; Tommie Killen, University of Southern Mississippi; Sunny D Wells, University of Southern Mississippi
Self as superhero: Using imagination in (re) constructing self and the world - Laurie MacGillivray, University of Memphis; Margaret Curwen, Chapman University