Kieran Egan (educationist)
| Kieran Egan | |
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| Born |
1942 Ireland |
| Occupation | Author, Professor of Education, Canada Research Chair in Education |
Kieran Egan (born 1942) is a contemporary educational philosopher and a student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history.[1] He has written on issues in education and child development, with an emphasis on the uses of imagination and the intellectual stages (Egan calls them understandings) 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.
He currently works at Simon Fraser University.[2] His major work is The Educated Mind.[citation needed]
Biography
Egan was born in 1942 in Clonmel Ireland, though, he was raised and educated in England. He graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966. He subsequently worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Kingston upon Thames. He then moved to the United States and began a Ph.D in the philosophy of education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Egan completed his Ph.D at Cornell University in 1972.[3][4]
Imaginative Education
Kieran Egan is the director of the Imaginative Education Research Group,[2] which was founded by the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. The goal of this group is to improve education on a global scale by developing and proliferating the ideas of Imaginative Education[5]
Main works
- 1976 Structural Communication. Fearon Publishers, Belmont, Calif. ISBN 0-8224-6550-7
- 1979 Educational Development. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-502458-3
- 1983 Education and Psychology: Plato, Piaget, and Scientific Psychology. Teachers College Press, Columbia University, New York ; London. ISBN 0-8077-2717-2
- 1988 Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90003-4
- 1988 Imagination and Education. Teachers College Press, New York. ISBN 0-8077-2878-0
- 1989 Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-19031-5
- 1990 Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90050-6
- 1992 Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-19033-1
- 1997 The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-19036-6
- 1999 Children's Minds, Talking Rabbits & Clockwork Oranges: Essays on Education. Teachers College Press, New York. ISBN 0-8077-3808-5
- 2002 Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-09433-7
- 2005 An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA. ISBN 0-7879-7157-X
- 2006 Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif. ISBN 1-4129-2788-9
- 2008 The Future of Education: Reimaging Our Schools from the Ground Up. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. ISBN 978-0-300-11046-3
- 2010 Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation that Can Transform Schooling. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. ISBN 978-0-226-19043-3
Awards and honors
- 1991: University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education[6]
- 1993: Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
- 2000: Elected as Foreign Associate member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.)
- 2001: Killam Research Fellowship
- 2001: Appointed to a Canada Research Chair in Education[3]
- 2010: Utne Reader magazine listed Egan as one of the "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."[7]
External links
Notes
- ↑ Theodora Polito, Educational Theory as Theory of Culture: A Vichian perspective on the educational theories of John Dewey and Kieran Egan Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2005
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Egan, K., & Judson, G. (2008). Of Whales and Wonder. Educational Leadership, 65(6), 20-25.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Egan, K. (2005). An imaginative approach to teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- ↑ http://www.educ.sfu.ca/kegan/KE%E2%80%99s%20Press%20Kit.pdf
- ↑ http://ierg.net/about. Accessed on 13 November 2010
- ↑ "1991- Kieran Egan".
- ↑ "Kieran Egan: Teacher of the Years". Retrieved 19 October 2010.
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