What is imagination?
Literati describe imagination as very agile and playful.
Mo Bosang said? Great artists are people who impose their personal imagination on all mankind. ?
Keats said:? My imagination is a monk temple, and I am a monk in the temple. ?
Haruki Murakami said: My imagination is like an animal. All I did was make sure it was alive. ?
It sounds like imagination is very important. Without imagination, there would be no Einstein, no Haruki Murakami, no philosophers, writers and great artists. But after all, we still don't understand what hell imagination is. It seems very abstract. The most paradoxical thing is that we are trying to imagine with imagination.
Imagination is a kind of advanced thinking. It is the ability of people to create an idea or a picture of an idea in their minds. But this creation is not out of thin air. For example, when you say cars, I immediately imagine all kinds of car images. That's the reason. Therefore, imagination is generally completed on the basis of mastering certain knowledge.
What is a child's imagination? It is the ability to re-create, associate and migrate existing images. For example, when a child sees a circle, he will answer many answers, such as the sun, eggs, biscuits, balls and so on. What children imagine actually exists in the real world, something that can be touched, or something that can be smelled, or something that can be felt.
Children are born with imagination. So what parents can do, on the one hand, is to give their children more freedom to explore, on the other hand, to provide them with more imaginative materials. Among them, picture books are ideal and simple materials to stimulate imagination.
The importance of children's imagination
Education is not only to give children profound knowledge, but also to cultivate creative children. In fact, the history of human progress is a history of constant innovation. With the rapid development of science and technology, people are more and more deeply aware of the importance and value of innovation. Einstein said: Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination summarizes everything in the world, promotes progress and is the source of knowledge evolution.
Children have no imagination within one year old, and they have imagination factors from one to two years old. The imagination of two to three years old has been developed, and it is still in its infancy. After the age of three, children's imagination has no predetermined purpose and theme, and often comes directly from external stimuli unconsciously. Intentional and creative imagination develops initially to meet the imagination process.
First, expand children's horizons and enrich their perceptual knowledge and life experience.
The accumulation of knowledge and experience is the foundation of children's imagination development. In practical work, we should guide children to perceive the objective world, let them be exposed to nature, let them see more, listen more, imitate more and observe more, and broaden their horizons, accumulate perceptual knowledge, enrich their life experience, increase the content of appearances and add materials to their imagination through activities such as visiting and traveling.
Once when I was leading the children in my class to outdoor activities, I saw a piece of white clouds in the blue sky. One child couldn't help shouting: Teacher, I really want to pick a piece of white clouds. ? I asked? Why? I want to eat, so sweet. That's cotton candy! ? I looked up and saw that these white clouds were fluffy and soft, much like a cotton candy! It seems that this child must often eat cotton candy.
And another child said: That's not cotton candy, that's a flock of sheep put by my grandfather? It turns out that this child's grandfather keeps a flock of sheep in the countryside. No wonder children have a clear memory of sheep. It can be seen that children's perceptual knowledge and life experience are very important to children's imagination. Children's individual experiences are different, and the content of imagination is also different.
Second, make full use of literary and artistic activities to develop children's imagination.
Kindergarten has carried out a series of literary and artistic activities, which is helpful to cultivate imagination.
First of all, the development of children's imagination is inseparable from language activities. Imagination is the reflection of the brain to the objective world, which needs a complicated process of analysis and synthesis. This process is closely related to language thinking. Through words, children gain indirect knowledge and enrich the content of imagination, and children can also express their imagination through words.
Secondly, art activities are the ideal wings of children's imagination. Will's paintings, in particular, can freely give play to children's imagination and conceive strange and novel works. In the teaching process, teachers should stimulate children's inspiration, let children's imagination fly, ignite the spark of children's creation, encourage children to paint boldly, and let children give full play to their imagination to create excellent works.
Thirdly, music and dance activities are also an important means to cultivate children's imagination. Through the feeling of music and dance, children can use their imagination to understand the artistic image they created, and then use their creative thinking to express the artistic image.
For example, when listening to music, the teacher plays a piece of music for the children to listen, think and think. When the teacher plays the emotional March, the children will stride forward and say that they are the People's Liberation Army and the small navy. When you play a light music, the children will be quiet. Someone said: Teacher, I dreamed that I became a butterfly, flying among the flowers. Am I pretty? In beautiful music, children's emotions are excited and happy, and their imagination is fully exerted. Therefore, music and dance also provide children with imagination space and cultivate their imagination.
The role of imagination
1. Develop social skills
When children play house, they will study the relationship between family, friends and colleagues and understand how people interact with each other. Play doctors, they will imagine how doctors care about patients; Play the role of parents, and they will know more about how parents care about their children. Imaginative games can stimulate children's sympathy for others. If children can imagine the feeling of quitting a game or losing a pet, they will be more willing to help people in need, to do things fairly, and to share and cooperate with others.
Build confidence
Children can't control their own lives. But if they play the role of skyscraper builders or superman defending the earth, they will have more confidence in their abilities and potential.
3. Promote intellectual development
Imagination is the beginning of abstract thinking. You can see the king's castle on the beach, or you can see delicious children learning symbolic thinking in pies made of mud. This skill is very important in school, because children will learn that numbers represent the number of objects and letters represent sounds.
4. Improve language skills
Children who play house will spend a lot of time talking with people, which virtually increases their vocabulary and improves their sentence organization and communication skills.
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