Engaging Imagination -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- How Should You Use This Book? -- What This Book Is Not -- Overview of Chapters -- Audience -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part 1 Understanding the Role of Imagination in Learning -- 1 How Engaging the Imagination Fosters Reflective Thinking -- The Three Axioms of Student Engagement -- Engagement Is Personally Meaningful -- Learning "Sticks" When Multiple Methods Engage the Imagination -- Students Are Engaged When Something "Jerks" Them Out of the Routines -- How Does Engaging Imagination Connect to Reflection? -- What Does It Mean to Be Reflective? -- Fourteen Elements of Reflective Thinking in Students -- Creativity and Playfulness Are Important -- A Degree of Student Freedom Is Essential -- The Hegemony of Written Reflection Must Be Challenged -- A Degree of Resistance Is Normal -- Reflection Can Be Used for Control -- Summary -- 2 Introducing Reflective Thinking to Students -- Clarifying the Elements of Reflective Thinking -- Modeling Reflectivity: Examples for Each Reflective Thinking Process -- Using Students' Testimony -- Student Resistance to Reflective Control -- Summary -- 3 Connecting Creativity, Imagination, and Play -- Emotional Intelligence -- The Place of Creativity in Student and Teacher Reflection -- Defining Creativity -- Connecting Imagination to Creativity -- The Meaning of Play -- Summary -- Part 2 Engaging Imagination Tools and Techniques -- 4 Using Visual Methods of Teaching and Learning -- Losing Sight of Seeing: A Rural Walk -- Visual Intelligence and Visual Literacy -- The Duck/Rabbit: "Seeing As" -- Learning to See Visual Culture: An Urban Walk -- Sketchbooks and Look Books -- Paper Tearing as Visual Representation -- The Plait -- LSD -- Drawing and Collaging Discussion -- Visual Dialogue -- Visualization Techniques -- Summary.

5 How Story and Metaphor Provoke Reflective Thinking -- Creative Reflection and Metaphor -- Roller Coasters, Rainbows, and Other Learning Metaphors -- Dyslexia: The Bully in My Playground -- Tell Us about It -- Diagrams as Story Triggers: The Change Curve -- Timelines -- Metaphor as Parable -- Summary -- 6 Playing Seriously: Legos and Labyrinths -- The Concept of Lego Serious Play -- Lego Serious Play in Action -- Opening the Workshop -- Beginning Metaphorical Meaning Making -- Creating Their Own Models -- Building Cohesion -- Students' Responses -- Labyrinths for Creative Reflection -- Alex Irving: Challenges and Opportunities in Labyrinth Learning -- Summary -- 7 Playing with Space: Pods and Patchwork -- Learning Spaces -- Hello Cloud 9: The Reflective Pod -- The Spliff Bunker -- Other Forms of Reflective Pod Engagements -- Postcards and Patchworks -- Quercus genius -- Spatial Design and Inner/Outer Space -- Inner Reflection on Outer Presentations -- Summary -- 8 Asking Powerful Questions -- Personal Construct Psychology and Creative Reflection -- Self-Characterization -- Laddering -- "Light Touch" Laddering -- Pyramiding -- Clean Language -- Practicing Clean Language: Caitlin Walker -- Summary -- 9 Building Reflective Communities: Maps and Mazes -- Wenger's Communities of Practice -- Maps, Membership, and Mazes -- Pia -- Maria -- Li Hu -- Samantha -- Duncan -- Lucas -- The Picture Group -- Six Degrees of Separation -- Wikis as Online Spaces for Shared Reflection -- The Digital Transformations Research Project -- 1. Embrace digital media because we want to. -- 2. Set no limits on participation. -- 3. Celebrate participants, not the platform. -- 4. Support storytelling. -- 5. Some gifts, some theatre, some recognition. -- 6. Offline to online is a continuum. -- 7. Reinvent learning. -- 8. Foster genuine communities. -- Summary.

Part 3 Negotiating the Emotional Realities of Engaging Imagination -- 10 Keeping Energy and Morale High -- Frogs and Bats -- Plates, Timelines, and the Reflectionaire -- Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths-Based Learning -- Strengths and Flow -- When the Going Gets Tough: Techniques for Building Confidence -- Techniques for Troubleshooting: The Life Wheel and Covey's Circles of Concern -- The Emotional Pathfinder -- The Emotional Pathfinder Framework -- Reflection as Speculation: Modeling Cause and Effect -- Summary -- 11 Engaging Our Own Imaginations as Authors -- Alison -- Stephen -- References -- Index -- Advert.