Kieran Egan

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Kieran Egan is affiliated with the following schools: Simon Fraser University, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Kieran Egan was an Irish educational philosopher and a student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history. He has written on issues in education and child development, with an emphasis on the uses of imagination and the stages that occur during a person's intellectual development. He has questioned the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, notably Herbert Spencer and John Dewey.

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Kieran Egan 's Published Works

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An Exchange: The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach. (1991) (594)
The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding (1997) (561)
Literacy, Language, and Learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing (1985) (339)
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching (2005) (298)
Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School (1989) (272)
Narrative in teaching, learning, and research (1995) (165)
Teaching as story telling (1988) (157)
Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood (1990) (129)
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. (2001) (125)
The Educated Mind (1997) (124)
Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years (1992) (119)
The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up (2008) (88)
Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and the Curriculum (1988) (77)
Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15 (1990) (66)
Memory, Imagination, and Learning: Connected by the Story. (1989) (65)
Imagination and education (1988) (65)
Literacy, Society and Schooling: A Reader. (1988) (60)
What Is Curriculum (1978) (60)
Literacy and the Oral Foundation of Education. (1987) (57)
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning (2002) (50)
Start with What the Student Knows or with What the Student Can Imagine? (2003) (49)
Children's Minds, Talking Rabbits, and Clockwork Oranges: Essays on Education (1999) (48)
Education And Psychology (1983) (42)
Education and Psychology: Plato, Piaget and Scientific Psychology (1984) (41)
Social Studies and the Erosion of Education (1983) (40)
Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context: Some Cognitive Tools of Literacy (2003) (37)
Metaphors in Collision: Objectives, Assembly Lines, and Stories (1988) (36)
Imagination in Teaching and Learning: Ages 8 to 15 (2013) (34)
Teaching as Story-Telling: A Non-Mechanistic Approach to Planning Teaching. (1985) (34)
Structural Communication -- A New Contribution to Pedagogy. (1972) (33)
Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers (2006) (31)
Wonder-full education : the centrality of wonder in teaching and learning across the curriculum (2014) (31)
Layers of Historical Understanding (1989) (31)
What Is a Plot (1978) (30)
Teaching and learning outside the box : inspiring imagination across the curriculum (2007) (27)
Why Education Is So Difficult and Contentious. (2001) (26)
The Roles of Schools: The Place of Education (1992) (25)
Some Presuppositions that Determine Curriculum Decisions (1978) (24)
Values and Imagination in Teaching: With a Special Focus on Social Studies (2009) (24)
Students' Development in Theory and Practice: The Doubtful Role of Research (2005) (24)
The Cognitive Tools of Children's Imagination. (2001) (22)
John Dewey and the Social Studies Curriculum (1980) (21)
The Arts as the Basics of Education. (1997) (19)
Individual development and the curriculum (1986) (17)
Cracking the Code of Electronic Games: Some Lessons for Educators (2010) (17)
Teaching History to Young Children. (1982) (16)
We Begin as Poets (2002) (15)
Education's three old ideas, and a better idea (1999) (13)
The Erosion of Education: Socialization and the Schools (1981) (12)
Young Children's Imagination and Learning: Engaging Children's Emotional Response. (1994) (12)
Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling (2011) (11)
Educating and Socializing: A Proper Distinction? (1983) (10)
Engaging students’ imaginations in second language learning (2013) (9)
Ethics and educational policy (1978) (9)
Educating Adolescents (2008) (8)
Retrospective on "What is Curriculum?" (2003) (8)
Development in Education (1984) (7)
Perceptions of History. An Analysis of School Textbooks (1989) (7)
The Analytic and the Arbitrary in Educational Research (1988) (7)
Elliot Eisner's Imagination and Learning (2012) (7)
What Children Know Best. (1979) (7)
How to ask questions that promote high‐level thinking (1975) (6)
LEARNING TO TEACH, IMAGINATIVELY: SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TEACHERS THROUGH COGNITIVE TOOLS (2017) (6)
Plato's Theory of Educational Development: On the Inappropriateness of Applied Psychology (1981) (6)
Forward to the 19th Century (2000) (5)
What Does Piaget's Theory Describe? (1982) (5)
Conceptions of Development in Education (1998) (5)
Sustaining a prolonged pivot: Appraising challenges facing higher education stakeholders in switching to online learning (2020) (5)
Relevance and the Romantic Imagination (1991) (5)
Children's Path to Reality from Fantasy : Contrary Thoughts About Curriculum Foundations (1983) (5)
Learning in Depth: Students as Experts. (2009) (5)
The Other Half of the Child (1987) (5)
The Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education@@@The Moral & Spiritual Crisis in Education: A Curriculum for Justice & Compassion in Education (1990) (4)
The Underused Power of the Story Form in Teaching. (1987) (4)
From Myth to History and Back Again. (2007) (4)
Reply to Thornton, “Social Studies Misunderstood” (1984) (4)
Honouring the role of narrative and metaphor in education (2018) (4)
“Learning in Depth” in teaching education (2015) (4)
Piaget's Developmental Theory (2012) (4)
Irony in the Soul: a response to Joanne Buckley's ‘a critique of Kieran Egan's theory of educational development’ (1994) (4)
Sensitive Periods and Motivation: towards an educational theory of motivation (1978) (3)
Beyond Linear and Branching Programmed Instruction (1974) (2)
On the Possibility of Theories of Educational Practice. (1982) (2)
Education and the Mental Life of Young Children (1991) (2)
Emotion and Imagination in Teaching (2008) (2)
The Social Studies Curriculum: The Case for Its Abolition. (1992) (2)
On Literacy Anthologies and Adult Education: A Critical Perspective (1990) (2)
Imagination and Learning: A Response to Maxine Greene (1985) (2)
Building My Zen Garden (2000) (2)
Teaching the Romantic Mind (1994) (1)
Reply to Betty A. Sichel's “Plato's Divided Line and Piaget: A Response to Kieran Egan” (1982) (1)
Cognitive Tools and the Acquisition of Literacy. Working Paper No. 5. (2001) (1)
On Learning: A Response to Floden, Buchmann, and Schwille (1987) (1)
The Student and the Secondary Social Studies Curriculum. (1978) (1)
CHAPTER 1: Some Neglected Components of Teacher Education Programs (2010) (1)
Measuring the Ability to Organize Knowledge. (1973) (1)
Interlude: Education, Spirituality, and the Arts (2007) (1)
Education as the Recapitulation of Sense-Making Techniques (2020) (1)
Common, Dianne L., and Kieran Egan, "The Missing Soul of Modes of Curriculum Implementation-Educational Theory," Curriculum Perspectives, 8(May, 1988), 1-10.* (1988) (1)
The State of Research on Literacy@@@Literacy and Schooling@@@Literacy, Society and Schooling@@@Literacy, Language, and Learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing (1988) (1)
Vol28#1_Rhetoric and the Preservation of Imaginative Literacy (1993) (1)
The Ideas That Run Schools. Research in Focus. (2003) (1)
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds: The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II (2011) (1)
Developing Creativity and Imagination by Accumulating Lots of Useless Knowledge (2017) (1)
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching History (2013) (1)
Myth, Romance, Philosophizing, and Irony, and the Social Studies Curriculum (1976) (1)
chapter 19: Educating Adolescents (2008) (0)
AC 2012-4267: CREATING A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT SUP- PORTS INNOVATION AND DEEP LEARNING IN GEOTECHNICAL EN- GINEERING (2012) (0)
Teaching Understanding of the USSR (1988) (0)
Imagination in a World of Assessment (2009) (0)
Egan, Kieran, "Why Education is So Difficult and Contentious," Teachers College Record, 103(December, 2001), 923-941. (2001) (0)
The Grasses of Kaliningrad (2017) (0)
The Development of Understanding (2018) (0)
Antagonism between western and Islamic cultures in Iranian English textbooks (2022) (0)
Educationally Useful Theories (2012) (0)
Attitude Formation and Social Studies Teaching (1980) (0)
V. Image and Concept (2019) (0)
Education as the Recapitulation SenseMaking Techniques of (2014) (0)
Towards a Theory of Educational Development (1979) (0)
Stimulating the imagination is not an alternative educational activity to be argued for in competition with other claims ; it is a prerequisite to making any activity educational (2006) (0)
Response to Comments on "Narrative and Learning: A Voyage of Implications" (1993) (0)
FOUR WRONG STEPS FOR CURRICULUM (1985) (0)
Individual Development and the Social Studies Curriculum. (1979) (0)
Reflective Talk From Poetic Text (2017) (0)
Plato's Developmental Theory (2012) (0)
Herodotus, Thycydides and Modern Students. (1982) (0)
Patina factory brings scrap to life (2014) (0)
Education and Psychology: A Sense of Differences (2012) (0)
The Marketplace of Ideas Is Out of Everything but Irony (2008) (0)
Book reviews (1986) (0)
A Reply to Forrest and Daniels (1998) (0)
TWO WRONG STEPS FOR CURRICULUM: STRUCTURES OF KNOWLEDGE AND STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT (1984) (0)
Vol39#2 Introduction (2006) (0)
Bringing Emotion into Learning through Imagination (2017) (0)
Volume Information (1999) (0)
Imagination and Learning (1985) (0)
Why Education is So Difficult and Contentious (2001) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Comenius at the AERA. (1992) (0)
Discovery Learning Through Structural Communication and Simulation. (1972) (0)
Characteristics of Students' Imaginative Lives, Ages Eight to Fifteen. (1994) (0)
Structural Communication in the Social Studies Class. (1976) (0)
Egan, Kieran, "What is Curriculum?" Curriculum Inquiry, 8(Spring, 1978), 65-72.* (1978) (0)
EDUCATION, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE ARTS (2007) (0)
IV. Imagination and Teaching (2019) (0)
Egan, Kieran, with Bob Dunton and Gillian Judson, Whole School Projects: Engaging Imagination through Interdisciplinary Inquiry. New York: Teachers College Press, 2014. (2014) (0)
Imaginación, herramientas cognitivas y alumnos renuentes / Imagination, cognitive tools and reluctant students (2012) (0)
Culture Currents (2000) (0)
A Rejoinder to Green, Franklin, Case, Daniels, and LaBar (1984) (0)
I. A Very Short History of the Imagination (2019) (0)
Temeljni problem istraživača u području pedagogije: zamjena analitičkog i empirijskog (2004) (0)
A Response to Jackson (2020) (0)
Principles of structural communication. (1976) (0)
II. Why Is Imagination Important to Education (2019) (0)
Stages in the Use of Knowledge (1980) (0)
Back Matter (1996) (0)
Egan, Kieran, "Metaphor in Collison: Objectives, Assembly Lines, and Stories," Curriculum Inquiry, 18(Spring, 1988), 63-86. (1988) (0)
Structural Communication Topics (5): The Tudor Peace (1970) (0)

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