Experimenting With Imagination

Abstract

Three participants from the Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellenceââ¬â¢s 2016 reading group discuss past strategies for using creativity and imagination to promote deep thinking in students and discuss how they have tried new strategies as a result of the reading group. àApproaching instruction from the seemingly disparate disciplines of rhetoric, game writing, and nursing, the presenters will focus on some specific strategies borrowed from Engaging Imagination: Helping Students Become Creative and Reflective Thinkers (James & Brookfield, 2014). The presenters will share the results of these ââ¬Åexperimentsââ¬Â in the classroom and reflect on how framing/re-framing some aspects of their pedagogy in terms of imagination towards reflection has affected their teaching.

Takeaway: Attendees will participate in versions of these classroom ââ¬Åexperimentsââ¬Â and be allowed to judge the effectiveness/utility of such strategies informed with hands-on experience.à Presented by faculty from disparate disciplines, attendees will see firsthand the common ties for any teaching occasion where deep reflection and engagement are a goal, leaving with ideas for new or augmented activities that benefit students and provide new challenges for instructors.