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Imaginary companions are a common form of childhood fantasy of interest to parents, educators, and psychologists because they provide insights about children's creativity, thoughts and feelings.

Imaginary companions. --- Companions, Imaginary --- Friends, Imaginary --- Imaginary friends --- Imaginary playmates --- Playmates, Imaginary --- Child psychology --- Imagination in children --- Play --- Imagination in children. --- Play.

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It is well known that children's activities are full of pretending and imagination, but it is less appreciated that animals can also show similar activities. Originally published in 2002, this book focuses on comparing and contrasting children's and animals' pretenses and imaginative activities. In the text, overviews of research present conflicting interpretations of children's understanding of the psychology of pretense, and describe sociocultural factors which influence children's pretenses. Studies of nonhuman primates provide examples of their pretenses and other simulative activities, explore their representational and imaginative capacities and compare their skills with children. Although the psychological requirements for pretending are controversial, evidence presented in this volume suggests that great apes and even monkeys may share capacities for imagination with children, and that children's early pretenses may be less psychological than they appear.

Imagination in children. --- Psychology, Comparative. --- Behavior, Comparative --- Comparative behavior --- Comparative psychology --- Ethology, Comparative --- Intelligence of animals --- Zoology --- Animal behavior --- Animal intelligence --- Animal psychology --- Human behavior --- Instinct --- Child psychology

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Alongside the world of everyday reality, the young child develops an imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, daydreams, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic. This book charts the imaginative development of children, conveying the importance of art-making, pretense play and fantasy in early childhood years, and highlighting the potential that imaginative behaviors hold for cognitive, affective and aesthethic development.

Imagination in children. --- Child psychology. --- Child development. --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Behavior, Child --- Child behavior --- Pediatric psychology --- Child development --- Developmental psychology --- Child psychology --- Development --- Psychology --- Ontwikkeling van het kind --- Fantasie --- Kindertekening --- Speltherapie

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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.

Teaching. --- Imagination in children. --- Storytelling. --- Middle schools --- Middle school education --- Curricula. --- Activity programs. --- middle school, education, students, teachers, teaching, learning, imagination, imaginative, children, kids, grades, classroom instruction, story telling, engagement, development, preteens, teenagers, curriculum, curricula, memory, emotion, activity programs, humanities, social studies, educational, framework, affective, impact, influence, philosophy, freedom.

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Written by drama practitioners/theorists, this book critically investigates the long, complex and ambivalent shared history of drama (and theatre) and education, formal and informal. The broad sweep takes in key historical and contemporary figures and their influences on drama education practice, including the ‘speech and drama’ movement, drama- and theatre-in-education, drama therapy and psychodrama, and emergent forms such as Applied Theatre. In its journey through play in the early years to the play on the stage, the book identifies and explains drama’s four paradigms of purpose: for language, for development, as pedagogy and as art-form. It shows how these interweave in highly intricate ways to provide different kinds of learning for different contexts, and how they sometimes become tangled in practice and theory, in the constant efforts of drama and theatre practitioners to get drama established in the curriculum, and keep it there.

Constructivism (Education). --- Drama in education. --- Drama --Study and teaching. --- Drama. --- Imagination in children. --- Drama --- Drama in education --- Fine Arts - General --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Study and teaching --- Education. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Creative dramatics (Education) --- Theater in education --- Education --- Art education. --- Curriculums (Courses of study). --- Arts Education. --- Curriculum Studies. --- Curricula. --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Curriculum planning. --- Creativity and Arts Education. --- Curriculum development --- Instructional systems --- Planning --- Curricula --- Design --- Education—Curricula. --- Core curriculum --- Courses of study --- Curricula (Courses of study) --- Curriculums (Courses of study) --- Study, Courses of --- Art --- Art education --- Education, Art --- Art schools --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Study and teaching.