Imagination: A Child's 21st Century Super PowerA Literature Review of Imagination in Education and LearningFirst Phase Review - October 2023

This article reports on the first phase of a literature review focused on the areas of imagination and creativity in relation to children and young people, which has been set out to identify whether academic research has been addressing the topic of imagination in education and learning. In the first phase of this review, more than 100 sources were identified, 34 were accessible for review and 14 significant and relevant research papers published were selected for analysis. The review of the 14 articles led to the emergence of themes and sub themes. These themes we then developed into an 'Imagination Wheel', which calibrates the identified themes and demonstrates how imagination relates and leads to dispositions and competencies. In many of the articles, imagination in education and learning were only partially addressed. As a result, we emphasise the need to deepen the discussion and research on the possibilities imagination can open up for children and young people, and those supporting their learning, particularly from disadvantaged circumstances.Joint publication of Institute of Imagination, Bath Spa University, House of Imagination, Goldsmiths University of London and Dublin City University.

本文报道了一项文献综述的第一阶段，该综述聚焦于儿童和青少年想象与创造力领域。旨在探究学术研究是否已对教育学习中的想象力主题进行探讨。在综述的第一阶段，共识别出超过100个来源，其中34个可供审查，并从中选取了14篇具有显著性和相关性的研究论文进行分析。对这14篇文章的审查产生了主题和子主题。随后，我们将这些主题发展成了一个‘想象力轮盘’，该轮盘对识别出的主题进行校准，并展示了想象力如何与态度和能力相关联。在许多文章中，教育学习中的想象力仅得到部分探讨。因此，我们强调深化关于想象力为儿童和青少年及其学习支持者开辟可能性的讨论和研究的重要性，尤其是对于处于不利环境中的群体。此研究由想象力研究所、巴斯泉大学、想象力之家、伦敦戈德史密斯学院和都柏林城市大学联合出版。