Why kids can learn more from tales of fantasy than realism

The last line of today’s re-blog:

“And hey, if it’s good for the kids …” :-)

M.C. Tuggle, Writer

Deena Weisberg is a senior fellow in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her specialty is “imaginative cognition,” which studies how imagination boosts one’s ability to learn. Her research demonstrates that children absorb new material taught in the context of a fanciful scenario better than they do when it’s presented in more realistic terms. In a recent edition of Aeon, she challenges...