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Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers

1 review
Kieran Egan

Corwin Press, 2006

A fun, revealing guide for teachers interested in going beyond the textbook to add an atmosphere of fun to literacy
TEACHING LITERACY: ENGAGING THE IMAGINATION OF NEW READERS AND WRITERS is a fun, revealing guide for teachers interested in going beyond the textbook to add an atmosphere of fun to literacy. Acknowledging that this atmosphere of fun, familiar ideas and experiences encourage effective instruction, TEACHING LITERACY offers a new approach designed to present classroom teachers with intriguing, ...

An Imaginative Approach to Teaching

1 review
Kieran Egan

Jossey-Bass, 2005

stimulating stuff
My hardcover book is now covered with pen marks in the margins, saying "Exactly!" "I've always felt this way!" and so on. Egan has touched on the whole conundrum of formal education -- that the wonderful mysteries of our lives and the world around us that should unfold throughout the process of getting educated are instead usually squelched! He talks about topics that "formal" educators ignore, ...

Teaching and Learning Outside the Box: Inspiring Imagination Across the Curriculum
Kieran Egan, Maureen Stout, ...

Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2007

Everyone knows that educational success is much more likely when students' imaginations and emotions are caught up in learning. While we have a rich educational literature about holding students' interest, we do not have very much sustained work on what the imagination is, how it works in learning, or how it may be inspired in the classroom. Addressing the whole curriculum, this book provides insights into each of those areas central to ...

The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up

1 review
Kieran Egan

Yale University Press, 2008

Another Great Book by Kieran Egan
This latest book by Kieran Egan reviews and expands on his earlier pubications. His ideas concerning how to best educate our children are presented clearly and enthusiastically. The vital importance of stories and imagination are reinforced. The only difficulty I had was the somewhat uncomfortable perspective of looking back from the future. Perhaps that is the best way to present the material, ...

Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years
Kieran Egan

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

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 Teaching as Story Telling left off, offering practical help for ...

Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean ...

3 reviews
Kieran Egan

Yale University Press, 2004

Beyond the obvious
Can't agree with the reviewer below about the dry hard-going style of the book - in fact it must be one of the most engaging academic works I've read (took less than a day). I just found it not a trivial matter that when someone is writing about the flaws of both "traditional" and "progressive" education which thwart their attempts to engage children's minds and imagination - then he himself be ...

The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding

2 reviews
Kieran Egan

University Of Chicago Press, 1998

A thoughtful and erudite essay on education and development
In my view, this is one of the more important books written in the last couple of decades. In essence, it is a companion volume to Merlin Donald's Origin of the Modern Mind, which is another important book. Donald proposes an evolutionary theory of the origins of mind, starting with the primate mind and ending with the modern human mind. He proposes a series of stages---episodic, mimetic, ...

Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School

1 review
Kieran Egan

University Of Chicago Press, 1989

A great resource for educators & parents!
"The educational achievement is not to make the strange seem familiar, but to make the familiar seem strange. It is seeing the wonderful that lies hidden in what we take for granted that matters educationally" (Egan, p. 47). In this book, Egan walks the reader through the elements of incorporating story across the curriculum as a way to interest students deeply in their learning and improve ...

Children's Minds, Talking Rabbits & Clockwork Oranges: Essays on Education (Critical Issues in Curriculum)

1 review
Kieran Egan

Teachers College Press, 1999

Children's Minds Talking Rabbits and Clockwork Oranges
The book Children's Minds Talking Rabbits and Clockwork Oranges by Kieran Egan is a collection of essays that focus on three main issues. Egan compares children's thinking to adults' thinking, argues that imagination be the focus of curriculum, and tries to deter educators from treating children like machines. He also discusses teh influence of society on curriculum and distinguisehs between ...

The Educated Mind
Kieran Egan

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1998

Building My Zen Garden

2 reviews
Kieran Egan

Houghton Mifflin, 2000

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Get this book if you have been suspicious about the hype surrounding the Zen of garden building or if you want a hilarious account of a brave amateur confronting the sham purity of Japanese garden design. But this is also a serious and wryly understated account of how to confront the task armed with the basic philosophy of the design of a garden and teahouse, and as well, a humorous introduction ...

Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15
Kieran Egan

Routledge, 1990

Moving away from accepted notions of educational theory and practice, Kieran Egan proposes a radical new way to look at education. Working from a perspective first presented in his book, Primary Understanding, Egan describes his view of the education process as a sequence of progressively more sophisticated layers of understanding. Romantic Understanding focuses of how typical eight to fifteen year olds are engaged by knowledge and most readily ...

The arts as the basics of education.: An article from: Childhood Education
Kieran Egan

Association for Childhood Education International, 1997

This digital document is an article from Childhood Education, published by Association for Childhood Education International on September 15, 1997. The length of the article is 3601 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: The arts are ...

Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers

Getting It Wrong From The Beginning
Kieran Egan

Yale Univ Pr, 2004

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