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The educated mindKieran Egan
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The educated mind

304 pagesFirst published 19973 editions
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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.

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EbookUniversity of Chicago Press2008—9780226190402
PaperbackUniversity Of Chicago Press19983109780226190396
EditionUniversity of Chicago Press19972999780226190365
Civilization, WesternCognition and cultureEducationEducational anthropologyEducational sociologyHistoryLearning, Psychology ofNonfiction