The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding / Kieran Egan.

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Egan, Kieran

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (x, 299 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0226190404
9780226190402

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Educated mind.DDC classification:

370/.1 20

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LB14.7 .E53 1998eb

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Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.

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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.

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