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Tenure by Kieran Egan
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774390306Author Kieran EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest... -
Teaching as Storytelling by Kieran Egan
Booksplease Price: $25.95"I am very impressed by the practicality of [Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating, and its various possibilities in a range of... -
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching by Kieran Egan
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $22.32In this book, award-winning educator Kieran Egan shows how we can transform the experience of K-12 students and help them become more knowledgeable and more creative in their thinking. At the core of... -
Individual Development and the Curriculum by Kieran Egan
Booksplease Price: $126.61This 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... -
Amplified Silence by Kieran Egan 9781774031575
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774031575Author Kieran EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Silver Bow PublishingPublisher... -
Individual Development and the Curriculum by Kieran Egan 9780415753319
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $41.77This 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... -
Seven Oaks Ago by Kieran Egan 9781774031919
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774031919Author Kieran EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Bow PublishingPublisher... -
Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood by Kieran Egan
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.36Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this... -
Imagination in Teaching and Learning: Ages 8 to 15 Kieran Egan 9780415080057
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.55Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject matter from their pupils' point of view. It is,... -
Imagination and the Engaged Learner: Cognitive Tools for the Classroom by Kieran Egan 9780807757123
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $36.91Students' imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination-one of... -
Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers by Kieran Egan 9781412927888
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $47.51"A fascinating piece of writing, presenting ideas that are fresh and exciting." -Katherine Taddie Kelly, Literacy Coach and Reading Interventionist Waco Independent School District, TX "Focuses on... -
Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling by Kieran Egan 9780226190433
Booksplease Price: $33.49For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curricula that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by... -
The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding by Kieran Egan
Booksplease Price: $36.83The ills of education are caused, this text argues, by the fact that we have inherited three major educational ideas, each of which is incompatible with the other two. These mutual incompatibilities,... -
Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers by Kieran Egan 9781412927871
RRP: $103.14Booksplease Price: $95.16'A fascinating piece of writing, presenting ideas that are fresh and exciting' - Katherine Taddie Kelly, Literacy Coach and Reading Interventionist, Waco Independent School District, TX 'Focuses on... -
Whole School Projects: Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry by Kieran Egan 9780807755839
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.85In 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... -
Wonder-Full Education: The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum Kieran Egan 9780415820301
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.66Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep... -
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget by Kieran Egan 9780300105100
Booksplease Price: $34.02The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these... -
Talking Texts: How Speech and Writing Interact in School Learning by Rosalind Horowitz
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $76.42This volume examines how oral and written language function in school learning , and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts that are used on a daily basis in schools... -
Imaginative Science Education: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education by Yannis Hadzigeorgiou 9783319295244
Booksplease Price: $116.82This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an... -
Cultivating Imagination in Leadership: Transforming Schools and Communities by Gillian Judson 9780807768044
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $39.01This comprehensive book provides a theoretical understanding of how imagination contributes to effective leadership, as well as practical tools all educational leaders can employ to cultivate their... -
Play from Birth to Twelve: Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings Doris Pronin Fromberg (Hofstra University, USA) 9781138804135
RRP: $74.81Booksplease Price: $66.94In light of recent standards-based and testing movements, the issue of play in child development has taken on increased meaning for educational professionals and social scientists. This third edition... -
Albert Schweitzer's Legacy for Education: Reverence for Life by A. G. Rud 9781349291328
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $42.71This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice. Rud argues that Schweitzer's life and work offer inspiration and... -
The Missing Professor: An Academic Mystery / Informal Case Studies / Discussion Stories for Faculty Development, New Faculty Orientation and Campus Conversations by Thomas B. Jones 9781579221386
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.72Fresh out of graduate school and desperate to pay off her student loans, Nicole Adams joins the faculty at Higher State U, a small university with a dubious past located in the middle of the Midwest...