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- Title
Interpreting imaginative lifeworlds: phenomenological approaches in imagination and the evaluation of educational practice.
- Authors
Trotman D
- Abstract
Interest in the promotion of creativity and emotional intelligence has been subject to a recent revival in English state education. At the same time, preoccupations in educational policy continue to revolve around themes of efficiency and peformativity. With an emerging focus on the merits of school self-evaluation, the advancement of practice in understanding and evaluating such things as pupils' creative, imaginative and emotional development is likely to become increasingly necessary. It is in pursuit of this practice that phenomenological approaches to educational research may offer important possibilities for the promotion and qualitative evaluation of these areas. Drawing on the findings of an Ed D study conducted in six primary schools, this article considers perceptions of imagination in education; dispositions to educational practice; and how the use of phenomenological research processes might illuminate and strengthen qualitative evaluation in schools.
- Subjects
EDUCATION; RESEARCH; CREATIVE ability; EDUCATION research; SCHOOL children
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2006, Vol 6, Issue 2, p245
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/1468794106062712