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The Educated Mind
How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
Taschenbuch von Kieran Egan
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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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Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Fachbereich: Theoretische Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226190396
ISBN-10: 0226190390
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Egan, Kieran
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Kieran Egan
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1998
Gewicht: 0,413 kg
Artikel-ID: 121209557
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Fachbereich: Theoretische Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226190396
ISBN-10: 0226190390
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Egan, Kieran
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Kieran Egan
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1998
Gewicht: 0,413 kg
Artikel-ID: 121209557
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