Background
Kieran Egan was born on May 22, 1942 in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, though he was raised and educated in England, United Kingdom. He is a son of James John Egan and Barbara (Wilson) Egan, a homemaker.
8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK
Kieran Egan graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
Kieran Egan received from Cornell University his Ph.D. in 1972.
(In these essays, the author questions the concept of chil...)
In these essays, the author questions the concept of children as concrete thinkers and recommends discarding social studies from the curriculum. Arguing that most empirical research in education is fruitless because of a particular conceptual confusion, he aims to show how presuppositions commonly prevent people from thinking effectively about educational issues.
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1999
(Inspired by a friend's balcony garden in Japan, the autho...)
Inspired by a friend's balcony garden in Japan, the author, an avid if amateur gardener, returns to America and begins to build his own Japanese-style garden.
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2000
(In Getting It Wrong from the Beginning Kieran Egan explai...)
In Getting It Wrong from the Beginning Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform.
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2002
(An Imaginative Approach to Teaching is a groundbreaking b...)
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching is a groundbreaking book that offers an understanding of how students' imaginations work in learning and shows how the acquisition of cognitive tools drives students' educational development..
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2005
(This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills off...)
This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.
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2006
(This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current f...)
This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process.
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2008
(In this new and practical contribution to the importance ...)
In this new and practical contribution to the importance of imagination in learning, Kieran Egan and his colleagues demonstrate how individual contributions to a coherent large-scale project can produce enormous results of great educational value.
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2014
(This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education ...)
This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education - Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature, this new theory is primarily constructed from close observation of children in their common and intense imaginative engagements, and in everyday educational practice.
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Kieran Egan was born on May 22, 1942 in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, though he was raised and educated in England, United Kingdom. He is a son of James John Egan and Barbara (Wilson) Egan, a homemaker.
Kieran Egan graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966. He also received from Cornell University his Ph.D. in 1972.
Kieran Egan worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Kingston upon Thames. He then moved to the United States.
Egan has been a professor of education at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia since 1972. Moreover, currently he is the director of the Imaginative Education Research Group, which was founded by the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.
Being an author, he has written on education and child development, with an emphasis on the uses of imagination and the intellectual stages that occur during a person’s intellectual development. Egan has questioned the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, notably Herbert Spencer and John Dewey. His major work is the 1997 book "The Educated Mind".
(In this new and practical contribution to the importance ...)
2014(An Imaginative Approach to Teaching is a groundbreaking b...)
2005(This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education ...)
(In Getting It Wrong from the Beginning Kieran Egan explai...)
2002(This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills off...)
2006(Inspired by a friend's balcony garden in Japan, the autho...)
2000(In these essays, the author questions the concept of chil...)
1999(This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current f...)
2008(The Educated Mind offers a bold and revitalizing new visi...)
1997(This book is not about unusually imaginative students and...)
1992Kieran Egan was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1993.
Kieran Egan married on August 18, 1972. His wife is Susanna Egan, a professor. The couple has three children - Michael James, Catherine Paula and David William.