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  • Imagination in Early Childhood Education

    Author(s)
    Ganis, Venus
    Paterson, Susan
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Ganis, Venus
    Paterson, Susan
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Imagination is the fundamental facility through which people make meaning. In childhood the process of learning to build relevant knowledge systems requires the formalization of order from symbolic codes derived from intuitive, spontaneous and chaotic information. The process of ordering information requires imaginative play for thinking to be realized as factual and fanciful. Education has developed strategies to facilitate imaginative thinking. This follows a developmental process: imagined images are drawn as symbols which later enable the child to tell stories through the visual language; imaginative play uses ...
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    Imagination is the fundamental facility through which people make meaning. In childhood the process of learning to build relevant knowledge systems requires the formalization of order from symbolic codes derived from intuitive, spontaneous and chaotic information. The process of ordering information requires imaginative play for thinking to be realized as factual and fanciful. Education has developed strategies to facilitate imaginative thinking. This follows a developmental process: imagined images are drawn as symbols which later enable the child to tell stories through the visual language; imaginative play uses the embodied experience to make metaphoric connections between fantasy and factual meaning. The psychological process of mental visualization called imagination is essential for the development of literacy. This paper will examine the r ole of imagination in visual literacy development.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Art Education
    Volume
    34
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=771828863386643;res=IELAPA
    Subject
    Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified
    Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Art Theory and Criticism
    Visual Arts and Crafts
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/44773
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