The educated mind :: how cognitive tools shape our understanding /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Egan, Kieran
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998, ©1997.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 299 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.
ISBN:0226190404
9780226190402

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