It is widely believed that a child's imagination ought to be 
stimulated and developed in education. Yet, few teachers 
understand what imagination is or how it lends itself to 
practical methods and techniques that can be used easily in 
classroom instruction. In this book, Kieran Egan--winner of 
the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his work on 
imagination--takes up where his Teaching as Story Telling 
left off, offering practical help for teachers who want to 
engage, stimulate, and develop the imaginative and learning 
processes of children between the ages of eight to fifteen. 
This book is not about unusually imaginative students and 
teachers. Rather, it is about the typical student's 
imaginative life and how it can be stimulated in learning, 
how the average teacher can plan to achieve this aim, and how 
the curriculum can be structured to help achieve this aim. 
Slim and determinedly practical, this book contains a wealth 
of concrete examples of curriculum design and teaching 
techniques structured to appeal specifically to children in 
their middle school years.