Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Dedication -- Body Matter -- Introduction: More than a Name -- Life and Education -- Approaching Collingwood -- The Shape of this Book -- I: History in Peril -- Handbook for History Teachers -- Educational Objectives for the Study of History -- Schools Council History Projects -- GCSE and the National Criteria for History -- History in the National Curriculum -- Afterglow -- II: Sympathy, Empathy or Re-enactment? -- Sympathy -- Empathy -- Collingwood and 'Re-enactment' -- 'Inside', 'Outside' and 'Same Thought' -- Collingwood and Wittgenstein on Mind and Language -- Re-enactment: A Conceptual View -- Mere Semantics? -- III: The Subject-matter of History -- Unreasonable Activities -- Emotions -- Non-specified Historical Agents -- Non-Human Animals -- Presuppositions and Philosophy -- Constellations, Paradigms, Epistêmês and Archives -- Reconsiderations of Philosophy -- The Widening Lens -- IV: Theories of Imagination and Historical Imagination -- Imagination as 'Appearances' -- The 'Jabbering' Servant -- The Particulars and Pleasures of the Imagination -- 'Blind, but Indispensable Function' -- The Romantic Imagination -- 'King without a Country' -- Psychological Research -- The Labyrinth of Mirrors -- The Form of the Content: A Metareflection -- The Historical Imagination -- Historical Imagination and Understanding -- Historical Imagination and Connection -- Historical Imagination and Literary Style -- Historical Imagination and Innovation -- The Historical Imagination of Historical Imagination Scholars -- V: Collingwood's Historical Imagination -- Imagination and Historical Imagination -- A Priori -- A Priori Historical Imagination -- The Content and the Form -- Historical Imagination as Imagination -- What is the Historical Imagination?.

VI: 'How Good an Historian Shall I Be?' - Imagination and Education -- Collingwood on Education -- The Aims of Education -- The Self -- Education and the Development of Self-Knowledge -- The Curriculum -- The Organisation of Education -- Simply Another Idealist? -- Questions -- The Historical Imagination of R.G. Collingwood -- VII: Towards an Historical Education -- Hirst and the Forms of Knowledge -- Bloom and the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives -- Bruner and the Process of Education -- Historicizing Education -- Imagination and Education -- National and Supranational Curricula -- Why Collingwood? -- Conclusion: Beyond the Academy -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Other Titles Available from Imprint Academic and Andrews UK.