"I am very impressed by the practicality of Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating, and its various possibilities in a range of fields makes it worth a good look by many kinds of teachers."--Maxine Greene, Teachers College, Columbia
"I am very impressed by the practicality of Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating...
It is widely believed that a child's imagination ought to be stimulated and developed in education. Yet, few teachers understand what imagination is or how it lends itself to practical methods and techniques that can be used easily in classroom instruction. In this book, Kieran Egan winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his work on imagination takes up where his "Teaching as Story Telling" left off, offering practical help for teachers who want to engage, stimulate, and develop the imaginative and learning processes of children between the ages of eight to...
It is widely believed that a child's imagination ought to be stimulated and developed in education. Yet, few teachers understand what imaginatio...
The Educated Mind offers a bold and revitalizing new vision for today's uncertain educational system. Kieran Egan reconceives education, taking into account how we learn. He proposes the use of particular "intellectual tools"-such as language or literacy-that shape how we make sense of the world. These mediating tools generate successive kinds of understanding: somatic, mythic, romantic, philosophical, and ironic. Egan's account concludes with practical proposals for how teaching and curriculum can be changed to reflect the way children learn. "A carefully argued and readable...
The Educated Mind offers a bold and revitalizing new vision for today's uncertain educational system. Kieran Egan reconceives education, taking...
This book addresses the current 'literacy crisis' alleged in professional journals and the popular press. Literacy is at once a contentious social and educational issue, a continuing concern of parents and teachers, and the focal point of a range of disciplinary inquiries. Literacy, Society, and Schooling draws together especially commissioned essays on the nature, history, and pedagogy of literacy by social historians, philosophers, literary scholars, linguists, educators, and psychologists. The editors have attempted to convey, in an accessible format, the range and diversity of the...
This book addresses the current 'literacy crisis' alleged in professional journals and the popular press. Literacy is at once a contentious social and...
This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.
This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers ho...
This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.
This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers ho...
15 volumes originally published between 1973 and 1993 on curriculum theory, changes in curricula and the politics and sociology of the school curriculum.
15 volumes originally published between 1973 and 1993 on curriculum theory, changes in curricula and the politics and sociology of the school curricul...
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate education needs to take seriously the task of evoking wonder about the content of the curriculum and to show how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms....
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children...
