• Age: 5 to 17
• Grade: k to 12

Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet. Cultivating ecological understanding requires reimagining the human world as part of, not apart from, nature. Describing the key principles of an approach to teaching called Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE), this book offers a practical guide for all teachers (K–12). It is designed for use with any curriculum to give students opportunities to engage their bodies, emotions, and imaginations in the world around them, thereby making learning meaningful.

Dr. Gillian Judson is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She teaches in Educational Leadership and Curriculum and Instruction programs. Her research looks at the role of imagination in leadership, imagination’s role in learning (K-post-secondary), imaginative and ecological teaching practices (PreK through post-secondary), and imaginative assessment in the post-secondary context. She is co-author of Imagination and the Engaged Learner: Cognitive Tools for the Classroom. (Egan & Judson, 2016) and author of A Walking Curriculum (Judson, 2018/2019).

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…Gillian Judson’s explanations lead you to investigate the world around you further, eventually leaving you with this AHA! moment of how all learning fits together.

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