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Educated Mind How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding

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ISBN-10: 0226190390

ISBN-13: 9780226190396

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Kieran Egan

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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. "A carefully argued and readable book. . . . Egan proposes a radical change of approach for the whole process of education. . . . There is much…    
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Book details

List price: $34.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Kieran Egan, originally from Clonmel, Ireland, has published sixteen academic books. He holds two Ph.D.s in education, from Stanford & Cornell. He is a professor at Simon Fraser University & lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Three Old Ideas and a New One
Mythic Understanding
Romantic Understanding
Philosophic Understanding
Ironic Understanding and Somatic Understanding
Some Questions and Answers
Some Implications for the Curriculum
Some Implications for Teaching Afterword
Bibliography
Index