The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding Paperback - 1998
by Kieran Egan
"A fascinating and provocative study of cultural and linguistic history, and of how various kinds of understanding that can be distinguished in that history are recapitulated in the developing minds of children".--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. "A compelling vision for today's uncertain educational system".--LIBRARY JOURNAL.
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Education is one of the greatest consumers of public money in the Western world, and it employs a larger workforce than almost any other social agency.
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The ills of education are caused, Kieran Egan argues, by the fact that we have inherited three major educational ideas, each of which is incompatible with the other two. Is the purpose of education to make good citizens and inculcate socially relevant skills and values? Or is it to master certain bodies of knowledge? Or is it the fulfillment of each student's unique potential? These conflicting goals bring about clashes at every level of the educational process, from curriculum decisions to teaching methods. Egan's analysis is cool, clear, and wholly original, and his diagnosis is as convincing as it is unexpected. Not content with a radical diagnosis, Egan presents us with a new and sophisticated alternative. Egan reconceives education as our learning to use particular "intellectual tools" - such as language or literacy - which shape how we make sense of the world. These mediating tools generate successive kinds of understanding: somatic, mythic, romantic, philosophical, and ironic. As practical as it is theoretically innovative, Egan's account concludes with practical proposals for how teaching and curriculum could be changed to reflect the ways we actually learn.
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- Title The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
- Author Kieran Egan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 310
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-12-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780226190396 / 0226190390
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.65 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 1.65 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 370.1
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