Introduction : imagination underfoot
A tool kit for learning : story, metaphor, binary opposites, rhyme, rhythm, and pattern, jokes and humor, mental imagery, gossip, play, mystery, embryonic tools of literacy
A tool kit for literacy : sense of reality, extremes of experience and limits of reality, association with heroes, sense of wonder, collectuins and hobbies, knowledge and human meaning, narrative understanding, revolt and idealism, changing the context, literate eye, embryonic tools of theoretic thinking
A tool kit for theoretic thinking : sense of abstract reality, sense of agency, grasp of general ideas and their anomalies, search for authority and truth, meta-narrative understanding
Conclusion : imagination every day
Appendix A. Mythic framework
Appendix B. Romantic framework
Appendix C. Philosophic framework.
An imaginative approach to teaching by Kieran Egan. ISBN 078797157X. Published by Jossey-Bass in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.