Imagining Classrooms
In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imaginations are being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas. Each classroom is part of a different type of school: a Waldorf/Stei...
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| description | In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imaginations are being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas. Each classroom is part of a different type of school: a Waldorf/Steiner school, an exclusive private school, a middle-class government school, a diverse catholic school, and a school for intellectually disabled ‘special’ children. And at these five schools, we see imagination being done — to represent, to transform, to empathise, to work with others, and to think. The book’s characters are children and teachers, with teachers working through the school day to give children the skills they will need to think, to think with and about others, and to be creative. What we notice are habits of imagining being instilled and these range from getting children to close their eyes and imagine accurate representations, through to getting them to imagine how others feel, to getting children to make new connections between thoughts and feelings. We wonder about the implications of these habits for good knowing and good doing. At the same time, the book shines a critical lens onto the imaginative practices of ethnographers and participant-observers, to help us think about how we define, how we class, and how we analyse our data. Ethnographers, too, have habits of imagining, representing, empathising, and connecting, and noticing these habits can help us do them better. How are academic practices both material and imaginative? How might we make sure our work is both as accurate and as ethical as possible? Macknight argues that imagination is not just something hidden in minds — it is something we do. This, then, is a book about how to do imagination better for thinking, for making, and for living together. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1709832026-01-20T05:06:16Z Imagining Classrooms Macknight, Vicki Education Social research and statistics Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imaginations are being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas. Each classroom is part of a different type of school: a Waldorf/Steiner school, an exclusive private school, a middle-class government school, a diverse catholic school, and a school for intellectually disabled ‘special’ children. And at these five schools, we see imagination being done — to represent, to transform, to empathise, to work with others, and to think. The book’s characters are children and teachers, with teachers working through the school day to give children the skills they will need to think, to think with and about others, and to be creative. What we notice are habits of imagining being instilled and these range from getting children to close their eyes and imagine accurate representations, through to getting them to imagine how others feel, to getting children to make new connections between thoughts and feelings. We wonder about the implications of these habits for good knowing and good doing. At the same time, the book shines a critical lens onto the imaginative practices of ethnographers and participant-observers, to help us think about how we define, how we class, and how we analyse our data. Ethnographers, too, have habits of imagining, representing, empathising, and connecting, and noticing these habits can help us do them better. How are academic practices both material and imaginative? How might we make sure our work is both as accurate and as ethical as possible? Macknight argues that imagination is not just something hidden in minds — it is something we do. This, then, is a book about how to do imagination better for thinking, for making, and for living together. 2026-01-20T05:06:15Z 2026-01-20T05:06:15Z 2026-01-19T08:17:31Z 2016 book ONIX_20260113T144613_9780993144974_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109734 9780993144974 9780993144967 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170983 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109734/1/9780993144974.pdf Mattering Press Mattering Press 10.28938/9780993144967 10.28938/9780993144967 cc75b5a6-8f3f-4412-bf4e-26e8d3b68bf0 9780993144974 9780993144967 Mattering Press 202 Manchester, UK open access |
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