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Learning in Depth

A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling

by Kieran Egan ...

Translated by Thaddeus J. Trenn ...

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, as Kieran Egan argues, it omits a crucial aspect of true education: deep knowledge.Real education, Egan ... Read more

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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, as Kieran Egan argues, it omits a crucial aspect of true education: deep knowledge.Real education, Egan
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Tenure

by Kieran Egan ...

Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family’s lot in life, only wants the impossible: for his modest, straightforward wife to get tenure at her university.Luckily, Mark ... Read more

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Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family’s lot in life, only wants the impossible: for his modest, straightforward wife to get tenure at her university.Luckily, Mark
... Read more
Whole School Projects

Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry

by Kieran Egan, Bob Dunton, Gillian Judson ...

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 just their own individual work, such Whole School Projects (WSPs) encourage appreciation for the ... Read more

$34.99 USD

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 just their own individual work, such Whole School Projects (WSPs) encourage appreciation for the
... Read more
Teaching Literacy

Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers

by Kieran Egan ...

"A fascinating piece of writing, presenting ideas that are fresh and exciting."-Katherine Taddie Kelly, Literacy Coach and Reading InterventionistWaco Independent School District, TX"Focuses on enhancing students′ metalinguistic awareness and not just their intuitive use of words, fostering the development of higher mental functions."-Elena Bodrova, Senior ResearcherMcRELBring out the fun in ... Read more

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"A fascinating piece of writing, presenting ideas that are fresh and exciting."-Katherine Taddie Kelly, Literacy Coach and Reading InterventionistWaco Independent School District, TX"Focuses on enhancing students′ metalinguistic awareness and not just their intuitive use of words, fostering the development of higher mental functions."-Elena Bodrova, Senior ResearcherMcRELBring out the fun in
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Imagination in Teaching and Learning

Ages 8 to 15

by Kieran Egan ...

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 this original and stimulating book, Kieran Egan, winner of the prestigous Grawemeyer award ... Read more

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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 this original and stimulating book, Kieran Egan, winner of the prestigous Grawemeyer award
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Imagination in Teaching and Learning

The Middle School Years

by Kieran Egan ...

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 topractical methods and techniques that can be used easily inclassroom instruction. In this book, Kieran Egan—winner ofthe prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his work onimagination—takes up where his Teaching as Story Tellingleft ... Read more

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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 topractical methods and techniques that can be used easily inclassroom instruction. In this book, Kieran Egan—winner ofthe prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his work onimagination—takes up where his Teaching as Story Tellingleft
... Read more
Wonder-Full Education

The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum

Edited by Kieran Egan, Annabella I. Cant, Gillian Judson ...

For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children. ... Read more

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For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children.
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Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)

Edited by Kenneth A. Strike, Kieran Egan ...

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 concepts as liberty, autonomy, equality and pluralism, and have provided a philosophical commentary which relates these concepts both to a background of philosophical literature, and to the institutional contexts and ... Read more

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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 concepts as liberty, autonomy, equality and pluralism, and have provided a philosophical commentary which relates these concepts both to a background of philosophical literature, and to the institutional contexts and
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Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century

by Liz Barber, Harriet J. Bessette, Tasha Bleistein, Lace Marie Brogden, Valerie B. Brown-Schild, Julie Causton-Theoharis, Lorenzo Cherubini, Ethel Chikapa, Anne Chodakowski, Charles R. Coble, Soria E. Colomer, James Cope, Joseph Corriero, Jacqueline Darvin, Kieran Egan, Andrew Ferdinandi, Doug Fisher, Mary Ellen Freeley, Thomas Hamilton, Victoria Hasko, Lisa B. Hibler, Yi-Ping Huang, Patricia A. Jennings, Beauty Kafuna, Lucy Kapenuka, Laura R. Kates, Tod Kenney, Dawn Kirby, Corey S. Mackenzie, Ian Matheson, Mairi McAra, Morva McDonald, Sheryl L. McGlamery, Catherine McTamaney, Brian Mosleley, Liveness Mwanza, Ausman Ngwali, Jana Noel, Amy Palmeri, Nita A. Paris, Susan K. Parry, Paul Pedota, BethA Peery, Patricia A. Poulin, Traci Redish, Lynn Romeo, Tao Rui, Twyla Salm, Mirriam Sherriff, Saundra L. Shillingstad, Elizabeth A. Skinner, Geoffrey B. Soloway, Cherry O. Steffen, Sharon Walpole, ThomasDeVere Wolsey, James D. Worsley, Miguel Zavala, Ken Zeichner, Chifundo Ziyaya, Peter Smagorinsky, Thomas R. Guskey, Diane Lapp, George Theoharis, Mark Warner ...

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 the traditional mold of teacher education.Section I presents unique preservice teacher preparation ... Read more

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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 the traditional mold of teacher education.Section I presents unique preservice teacher preparation
... Read more
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II

by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones, Anne Chodakowski, Julia Cote, Joyce M. Dutcher, Kieran Egan, Ginny Esch, Brenda Gladstone, David Jardine, Kathryn L. Jenkins, Gillian C. Judson0, Dixie K. Keyes1, Beverly J. Klug2, Chris Lasher-Zwerling3, Teresa Leavitt4, Shaun Murphy5, Jacqueline Sack6, Kym Stewart7, Madalina Tanase8, Kip Téllez9, Sandra Wasko-Flood0, Sharon Friesen1, Patricia T. Whitfield2, Terrell M. Peace3, Cheryl J. Craig4 ...

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 accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds ... Read more

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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 accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
... Read more
Individual Development and the Curriculum

by Kieran Egan ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
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, this new theory is primarily constructed from close observation of children in their common and intense ... Read more

$47.99 USD

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, this new theory is primarily constructed from close observation of children in their common and intense
... Read more
Primary Understanding

Education in Early Childhood

by Kieran Egan ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
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 world. Egan sees education as the acquisition of these sets of sense-making capacities, available in ... Read more

$73.99 USD

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 world. Egan sees education as the acquisition of these sets of sense-making capacities, available in
... Read more

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