Magic in Education

Contents: Preface. I. Science teaching through magic: 1. Introduction. 2. Review of related studies. 3. Methodology. 4. Analysis and interpretation. 5. Summary. II. Magic for evaluation of scientific attitude. Bibliography. Index.

The book review various teaching strategies adopted by various investigators for the child cantered joyful learning.

It makes an attempt to find out whether magic tricks can be used to teach science concepts at primary level and revealed with empirical evidences that magic can be used as an effective, joyful teaching as well as motivational strategy at primary level.
It also analysis the teachers opinion about this magical teaching strategy and suggests various books and sources to the interested teachers for learning magic and to use in their classroom transactions.

Further this book also reveals that magic can be used as tool to measure the scientific attitude of school children. (jacket)