@article{Armstrong_2009, title={The Pedagogy of the Imagination}, volume={2}, url={https://learninglandscapes.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/The-Pedagogy-of-the-Imagination}, DOI={10.36510/learnland.v2i2.293}, abstractNote={<p>The author takes an essay on the imagination by Italo Calvino as the cue for a reconsideration of the role of imagination in children’s thought and action and its educational implications. He emphasizes the value of interpretation, or critical scrutiny, as foremost among a teacher’s skills and central to curriculum design, teaching method and educational assessment, demonstrating the quality of children’s imaginative work, and how to value it, by means of a close reading of an eight year old’s brief med- itation on coming to school for the first time.</p&gt;}, number={2}, journal={LEARNing Landscapes}, author={Armstrong, Michael}, year={2009}, month={Feb.}, pages={43-57} }