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What should schools do to promote wonder?

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Wonder-full education recognises experiences of wonder as lying at the heart of learning and education. If we accept the premise that wonder is important for/in education, what should characterise wonder-full education? This paper clarifies what it is like to wonder, how the aims of wonder-full education are best described, and it discusses three dimensions of wonder-full education: the educators, the curriculum, and the ethos of the classroom and school. It is argued that the success of a wonder-full curriculum hinges on the capacities of the teacher, both her pedagogical tact and her ability to wonder herself.

Source: Oxford Review of Education

DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2020.1856648

Authors: Lynne Wolbert, Anders Schinkel

Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Education, Philosophy, and Society

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: John Templeton Foundation