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The educated mindKieran Egan

The educated mind

Kieran Egan
1997304 pages
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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.

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3 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    University of Chicago Press · 9780226190402
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    University Of Chicago Press · 310 pages · 9780226190396
  • Other · English · 1997
    University of Chicago Press · 299 pages · 9780226190365
Civilization, WesternCognition and cultureEducationEducational anthropologyEducational sociologyHistoryLearning, Psychology ofNonfiction