Children’s imagining about facts
Citation
Kuzmičová, A. (2023). Children’s imagining about facts. The Junkyard.
https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2023/9/9/childrens-imagining-about-facts
In this philosophy of imagination blog post, Anežka Kuzmičová reflects on WONDRE’s goals in terms of the distinction between so-called transcendent and instructive imagining.
Excerpt
There is much more to be said about Vincent’s habitual imagining. Its core qualities will become even clearer once we have systematically compared his data to that of remaining participants. At the end of this post, my interview with him leaves me awed and puzzled: at what strikes me as a combination of transcendent (pretence) vs. instructive imagining (rehearsing, but perhaps also developing one’s factual knowledge), and at the pervasive educational reality where children’s reading about facts is seriously thought of as devoid of imagination. I look forward to unpacking this reality in the years to come.
