In the light of fostering interdisciplinaryresearch on embodiment and imagination, MultiLab hosts a workshop on Imaginative Education with Dr. Gillian Judson and Prof. Hans U. Fuchs.

Dr. Judson's talk will focus on the concept of “perfinking” to reflect upon imagination and its importance in education. She will also show how imagination can be nurtured starting from the basic assumptions of Imaginative Education theory (IE), developed by educational philosopher Kieran Egan.

IE works on a set of “cognitive tools”, such as narrations, metaphors and embodied simulations, that influence the ways inwhich children’s imaginative understanding grows and changes within the socialand cultural context in which they find themselves. In his talk, Prof. Fuchswill focus on the use of these cognitive tools for teaching physics inpre-school and primary school.

For information and to register for the event, please write to federico.corni@unibz.it

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