Imagination and pedagogical sensitivity. As students’ perspectives on learning
become more hospitable to imaginative diversity, it may become easier to change their
thinking about teaching. What is the point, after all, of teaching in ways that make sense
to you as an adult but are experienced as drudgery by your students? Thus an important
dimension of our focus on imagination is the development of new ways of thinking about
content and process, planning and assessment. We remarked above on students’ literalmindedness:
their sense of the teacher’s job as imparting authoritative knowledge of