Wonder-Full Education: The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum

by Kieran Egan

Book Overview

Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep wonder alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate education needs to take seriously the task of evoking wonder about the content of the curriculum and to show how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms. It presents strong arguments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415820308
• ISBN13: 9780415820301
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"