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37 produkter
Teaching as Story Telling
An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 1989
199 kr
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"I am very impressed by the practicality of [Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating, and its various possibilities in a range of fields makes it worth a good look by many kinds of teachers."—Maxine Greene, Teachers College, Columbia
Imagination and the Engaged Learner
Cognitive Tools for the Classroom
Av Kieran Egan, Gillian Judson
Häftad, 2015
442 kr
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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 more …
Imaginative Approach to Teaching
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 2005
233 kr
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In this book, award-winning educator Kieran Egan shows how we can transform the experience of K-12 students and help them become more knowledgeable and more creative in their thinking. At the core of this transformative process is imagination which can become the heart of effective learning if it …
Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad
466 kr
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Educated Mind
How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 1998
332 kr
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The ills of education are caused, this text argues, by the fact that we have inherited three major educational ideas, each of which is incompatible with the other two. These mutual incompatibilities, it continues, bring about clashes at every level of the educational process, from curriculum …
Educated Mind
How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2007
718 kr
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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. …
Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling
Av Kieran Egan
Inbunden, 2011
232 kr
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Imagination in Teaching and Learning
The Middle School Years
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2014
469 kr
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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 …
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning
Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 2004
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406 kr
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The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational …
Imagination in Teaching and Learning
Ages 8 to 15
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 1992
785 kr
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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 …
Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)
Av Kenneth A. Strike, Kieran Egan
Inbunden, 2009
2441 kr
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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 …
Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)
Av Kenneth A. Strike, Kieran Egan
Häftad, 2012
822 kr
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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 …
Individual Development and the Curriculum
Av Kieran Egan
Inbunden, 2011
1478 kr
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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 …
Primary Understanding
Education in Early Childhood
Av Kieran Egan
Inbunden, 2011
2979 kr
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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 …
Individual Development and the Curriculum
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 2014
530 kr
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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 …
Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Av Kieran Egan, Annabella I. Cant m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2979 kr
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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 …
Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Av Kieran Egan, Annabella I. Cant m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
799 kr
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Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep wonder alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate education needs to take seriously the …
Literacy, Society, and Schooling
A Reader
Av Suzanne de Castell, Allan Luke m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
648 kr
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This book addresses the current 'literacy crisis' alleged in professional journals and the popular press. Literacy is at once a contentious social and educational issue, a continuing concern of parents and teachers, and the focal point of a range of disciplinary inquiries. Literacy, Society, and …
Whole School Projects
Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 2014
428 kr
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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 …
Imagination in Teaching and Learning
Ages 8 to 15
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2013
926 kr
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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 …
Imagination in Teaching and Learning
Ages 8 to 15
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2013
906 kr
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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 …
Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Av Gillian Judson, Annabella I. Cant m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
943 kr
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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 …
Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Av Gillian Judson, Annabella I. Cant m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
943 kr
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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 …
Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)
Av Kieran Egan, Kenneth A. Strike
E-bok, 2010
970 kr
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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 …
Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)
Av Kieran Egan, Kenneth A. Strike
E-bok, 2010
949 kr
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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 …
Primary Understanding
Education in Early Childhood
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2012
972 kr
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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 …
Primary Understanding
Education in Early Childhood
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2012
993 kr
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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 …
Individual Development and the Curriculum
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2012
609 kr
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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 …
Individual Development and the Curriculum
Av Kieran Egan
E-bok, 2012
609 kr
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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 …
Primary Understanding
Education in Early Childhood
Av Kieran Egan
Häftad, 2014
842 kr
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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 …
