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Seven Oaks Ago
"The past reaches forward" was an alternative title for this book. It catches the sense of past, present, and future being bound together in ways not always evident to creatures …
Whole School Projects
In this new and practical contribution to the importance of imagination in learning, Kieran Egan and his colleagues demonstrate how individual contributions to a coherent …
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning
The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century …
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching
In this book, award-winning educator Kieran Egan shows how we can transform the experience of K-12 students and help them become more knowledgeable and more creative in their …
Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)
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 …
Literacy, Society, and Schooling
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 …
Primary Understanding
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 …
The Educated Mind
The ills of education are caused, this text argues, by the fact that we have inherited three major educational ideas, each of which is incompatible with the other two. These mutual …
Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)
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 …
Imagination in Teaching and Learning
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 …
Imagination in Teaching and Learning
It is widely believed that a child's imagination ought to bestimulated and developed in education. Yet, few teachersunderstand what imagination is or how it lends itself …
Individual Development and the Curriculum
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 …