Deeply engaging the students in education is one of the strongest pedagogical desires of most educators. The desire is to make all students fascinated with a targeted educational subject, so they become active and enthusiastic in studying it. Student engagement is a primary marker of the quality of education. A disengaged student learns little or not at all and often disrupts the teacher and other, engaged students. Progressive educators’ belief expressed by the American educator Jerome Bruner is that “any subject could be taught to any child at any age in some form that was honest” (Bruner, Actual minds, possible words (p. 129). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986). The question is how an educator can find this “honest” way of teaching that creates “an educational vortex” of fascination for every student, which forcefully pulls them in to any curricular topic each moment of the lesson. In other words, the task of the educational vortex is to make students like, if not eve...
