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9780807738085

Children's Minds, Talking Rabbits and Clockwork : Changes - Essays on Education

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807738085

  • ISBN10:

    0807738085

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-02-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr
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Summary

Arguing that most empirical research in education is fruitless because of a particular conceptual confusion, Egan shows how our presuppositions commonly prevent us from thinking effectively about educational issues. Focusing on children's and adolescents' thinking, Egan shows how education must engage children's imaginations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii(2)
Foreword ix(4)
Elliot W. Eisner
Introduction xiii
CHILDREN'S MINDS 3(68)
1. Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education
3(31)
2. Narrative and Learning: A Voyage of Implications
34(8)
3. Teaching the Romantic Mind
42(15)
4. Conceptions of Development in Education
57(14)
CURRICULUM ISSUES 71(60)
5. Letting Our Presuppositions Think for Us
71(14)
6. The Arts as "the Basics" of Education
85(8)
7. Clashing Armies in the Curriculum Wars
93(18)
8. Educating and Socializing: The Curriculum Wars Continued
111(20)
CLOCKWORK ORANGES 131(52)
9. Social Studies and the Erosion of Education
131(16)
10. Metaphors in Collision: Objectives, Assembly Lines, and Stories
147(22)
11. The Analytic and the Arbitrary in Educational Research
169(14)
References 183(10)
Index 193(8)
About the Author 201

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