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  • IMAGINATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
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    IMAGINATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
    KIERAN EGAN
    Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject matter from their pupils' point of view. It is, however, difficult to define imagination in practice and even more difficult to make full use of its potential. In this original and stimulating book, Kieran Egan, winner of the prestigou...

    $1,300.00

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  • WONDER-FULL EDUCATION
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    WONDER-FULL EDUCATION
    KIERAN EGAN
    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 a...

    $1,420.00

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  • INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE CURRICULUM
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    INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE CURRICULUM
    KIERAN EGAN
    This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature, this new theory is primarily constructed from close observation of children in their ...

    $960.00

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  • PRIMARY UNDERSTANDING
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    PRIMARY UNDERSTANDING
    KIERAN EGAN
    Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the world. Egan sees education as the acquisition of these sets of sense-making capac...

    $1,480.00

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  • ETHICS AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 21)
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    ETHICS AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 21)
    STRIKE, KENNETH A. / EGAN, KIERAN
    This is a philosophical treatment of the conceptual and normative aspects of topics which are currently a matter of policy debate in education. The authors have focussed on such concepts as liberty, autonomy, equality and pluralism, and have provided a philosophical commentary which relates these concepts both to a background of philosophical literature, and to the institutiona...

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  • IMAGINATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
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    IMAGINATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
    KIERAN EGAN
    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 Teachi...

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  • LEARNING IN DEPTH
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    LEARNING IN DEPTH
    KIERAN EGAN
    For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge can’t help but be somewhat superficial—and, as Kieran Egan argues, it omits a crucial aspect of true education: deep knowledge. Re...

    $483.32

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  • THE EDUCATED MIND
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    THE EDUCATED MIND
    KIERAN EGAN
    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,...

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