Description: Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to evoke wonder in children about the content of the curriculum and shows how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms.
Review Quotes:
"In conclusion, the book criticizes traditional eductaion and teaching, while it provides the readers with historical, philosophical, pedagogical and educational arguments for the recognition of the importance of wonder as part of the educational significance of emotion and imagination. It is ful of ideas for innovation with wonder-full education playing a key role."
Dimitris Koliopoulos, Science and Education
"Wonder-Full Education is a wonderful addition to any educationalist's professional library."
Damien Morgan, Our Lady of the Southern Cross College
"As I read Wonder-Full Education, I often experienced joy and excitement. The book both inspired wonder and gave me ideas for how to encourage wonder in the classroom."
Cara Furman, Educational Theory, Volume 66, Number 5, 2016