User:Jm34harvey/wip/egan

Kieran Egan (educationist): home faculty @Simon Fraser University

Imaginative Education Research Group - IERG

 * Brief guide
 * Some thoughts
 * Cognitive tools:
 * Oral language (Mythic)
 * Literacy
 * Theoretical thinking
 * []
 * []

Works

 * Kieran Egan at isbn.nu:


 * 1976  Structural Communication
 * 1979  Educational Development
 * 1983  Education and Psychology: Plato, Piaget, and Scientific Psychology
 * 1988  Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood
 * 1988  Imagination and Education
 * 1989 O Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School
 * 1990  Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15
 * 1992 O Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years
 * 1997 &radic; The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
 * 1999  Children's Minds, Talking Rabbits & Clockwork Oranges: Essays on Education
 * 2002 &radic; Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
 * 2005 &radic; An Imaginative Approach to Teaching
 * 2006 &radic; Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers
 * 2007 O Teaching and Learning Outside the Box: Inspiring Imagination Across the Curriculum
 * 2008 &radic; The Future of Education: Reimaging Our Schools from the Ground Up
 * 2010 &radic; Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation that Can Transform Schooling

Intro

 * 16th century economic crises
 * Jean Bodin

Kinds of Understanding
Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic, Ironic and Somatic Understanding