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Wonder : the extraordinary power of an ordinary experience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glǎveanu, Vlad Petre (Author)
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Subjects:
Wonder.
Curiosity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Also available from Bloomsbury
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Boxes
  • Introduction: The Power of Everyday Experience
  • Notes
  • Here be Dragons
  • Notes
  • 1 Wondering about Wonder
  • 1.1 In the beginning
  • 1.2 First among passions
  • 1.3 The age of the sublime
  • 1.4 Wondering today
  • Notes
  • The Face of Wonder
  • Notes
  • 2 The Wondering Mind
  • 2.1 A complex vocabulary
  • 2.2 Transcending dichotomies
  • 2.3 The structural model
  • 2.4 A paradoxical state
  • Notes
  • Wonder in the Wild
  • Notes
  • 3 How Do We Wonder?
  • 3.1 Engaging with the possible
  • 3.2 Stages and processes
  • 3.3 A dynamic model
  • 3.4 What else and how else thinking
  • Notes
  • When Ideas Hatch
  • Notes
  • 4 Accidents Will Happen
  • 4.1 Take a chance
  • 4.2 Happy accidents
  • 4.3 The prepared mind
  • 4.4 The value of randomness
  • Notes
  • Is This Art?
  • Notes
  • 5 Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
  • 5.1 The found object
  • 5.2 When the invisible becomes visible
  • 5.3 The process of inquiry
  • 5.4 From wander to wonder and back again
  • Notes
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!i
  • Notes
  • 6 In Praise of Playfulness
  • 6.1 Flights of fancy
  • 6.2 Trying things out
  • 6.3 It takes two to wonder
  • 6.4 Failure is good
  • Notes
  • On Fear
  • Notes
  • 7 Wonder and the Other
  • 7.1 Wondering about others
  • 7.2 From others to otherness
  • 7.3 Openness to difference
  • 7.4 Wonder and ethics
  • Notes
  • #Rezist
  • Notes
  • 8 Collective Wonder
  • 8.1 Who's afraid of the big, bad crowd?
  • 8.2 Wonder and politics
  • 8.3 Activism, art and wonder
  • 8.4 Wondering about change
  • Notes
  • Children's Questions
  • Notes
  • 9 (Re)learning Wonder
  • 9.1 Pedagogies for/of wonder
  • 9.2 Wondering fully
  • 9.3 Wonder-full teachers
  • 9.4 Why wonder? Why now?
  • Notes
  • Epilogue: Living with Uncertainty
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • Copyright