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.