"Over the Rainbow": Fantasy Lands, Dream Worlds, and Magic Kingdoms

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and rationale
  2. Classroom context
  3. Content objectives 
  4. The imagination crisis
  5. Solutions
  6. The unit
  7. Conclusion
  8. Strategies
  9. Activities
  10. Academic standards
  11. Bibliography
  12. Endnotes 

Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality

Krista Baxter Waldron

Published September 2016

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Endnotes 

  1. Smith, Carl B. "Helping Children Understand Literary Genres. ERIC Digest." Helping Children Understand Literary Genres. ERIC Digest. 2014. Accessed July 18, 2016. http://www.ericdigests.org/1994/genres.htm.
  2. WordNetWeb. Accessed July 16, 2016. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?c=8&sub=Change&o2=&o0=1&o8=1&o1=1&o7=&o5=&o9=&o6=&o3=&o4=&i=-1&h=0&s=paracosm.
  3. Konkin, Serena F. Between Worlds: Paracosms as Imaginal Liminality in Response to Trauma. Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014. Accessed July 13, 2016. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1519572120?pq-origsite=summon&accountid=15172, 21.
  4. Brahic, Catherine. "Daydream Believers." New Scientist 223, no. 2987 (September 20, 2014): 32-37. Accessed July 15, 2016. doi:10.1016/s0262-4079(14)61814-5.
  5. Root-Bernstein, Michele, and Robert Root-Bernstein. "Imaginary Worldplay in Childhood and Maturity and Its Impact on Adult Creativity." HCRJ Creativity Research Journal Creativity Res. J. 18, no. 4 (2006): 421.
  6. Brahic, Catherine. "Daydream Believers." New Scientist 223, no. 2987 (September 20, 2014): 32-37. Accessed July 15, 2016. doi:10.1016/s0262-4079(14)61814-5.
  7. Bronson, Po, and Ashley Merryman. "The Creativity Crisis." Newsweek 156, no. 3 (July 19, 2010): 44-49. Accessed July 17, 2016. Academic Search Premier.
  8. Egan, Kieran, Maureen Stout, and Keiichi Takaya. Teaching and Learning outside the Box: Inspiring Imagination across the Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press, 2007, 23.
  9. Ibid., 78.
  10. Ibid., 78-9.
  11. Ibid., 79.
  12. Ibid., 79.
  13. Ibid, 82.
  14. Ibid., 123.
  15. Smith, Roberta. "Sugar? Sure, but with Salted Meaning." New York Times, May 11, 2014. Accessed July 16, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/arts/design/a-subtlety-or-the-marvelous-sugar-baby-at-the-domino-plant.html?_r=0.
  16. Yep, Laurence. "The Outsider in Fiction and Fantasy." English Journal 94, no. 3 (2005): 52.

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