The educated mind
Kieran Egan · 1997
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About the book
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.
First sentence: Education is one of the greatest consumers of public money in the Western world, and it employs a larger workforce than almost any other social agency.
Book details
- Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN
- 9780226190396
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