Kieran Egan: 10 books
Whole School Projects
Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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 large-scale project can produce enormous results of great educational value. Helping all participants to feel pride for more than...
Learning in Depth
A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
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,...
Imagination in Teaching and Learning
Ages 8 to 15
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
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...
Primary Understanding
Education in Early Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
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...
Imagination and the Engaged Learner
Cognitive Tools for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Students’ imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination—one of the great workhorses of learning—can be used to make all learning and all teaching...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
Teaching Literacy
Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
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.
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
by Kieran Egan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
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,...
Educación imaginativa
Herramientas cognitivas para el aula
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 28, 2018
¿Qué es la imaginación? ¿Por qué es tan importante la imaginación en el día a día del aula? ¿Cómo se potencia la imaginación de los estudiantes? ¿Cuál es el principio de la llamada Educación Imaginativa?
A menudo, la imaginación de los estudiantes es considerada en el aula como una...