With an attempt to abstract implications for classroom instruction, this study reviewed clinical psychological and neuropsychological research on the relationship between the past knowledge and the future imagination ability. Both clinical and neurops...
With an attempt to abstract implications for classroom instruction, this study reviewed clinical psychological and neuropsychological research on the relationship between the past knowledge and the future imagination ability. Both clinical and neuropsycholgical evidence clearly indicates that the two are inseparably related. More specifically, those patients who cannot recollect their own episodic knowledge turned out to be unable to imagine or think about what would be happening in their future. Since the fundamental function of knowledge is to enable the knowers to plan their prospective actions so sophisticatedly that the success rate of the action be enhanced, it was concluded that all three types of knowledge ― semantic knowledge, episodic knowledge, and procedural knowledge - should equally be emphasized in all classroom instruction.