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The future of education : reimagining our schools from the ground up / Kieran Egan. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2008.Description: xi, 191 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300110463
  • 9780300164596
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LB14.E28.F888 2008
  • LB14
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Contents:
Past, present, and future schools -- Why education is so difficult and contentious -- Accumulating cognitive tools
2010-2020 -- 2020-2030 -- 2030-2040 -- 2040-2050 -- 2050-2060 -- Conclusion.
Review: "Kieran Egan explores the three big ideas and aims of education - academic, social, and developmental growth - and exposes their flaws and fundamental incompatibility. He then proposes and describes a process called Imaginative Education that would dramatically change teaching and curriculum while delivering the skills and understanding that we all want our children to acquire. His speculative narrative of education from 2010 to 2060 - executed with wit and verve - shows how we might very well get there from here. Unlike most books dealing with fundamental educational ideas, this one also details how its new proposal can be implemented in everyday classrooms."--Jacket.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction LB14.7.E336.E38 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001719950

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PennsylvaniaRT ONE: From a major problem toward a solution -- Past, present, and future schools -- Why education is so difficult and contentious -- Accumulating cognitive tools

PennsylvaniaRT TWO: A Fifty-Year Program of Educational Reform: 2010-2060 -- 2010-2020 -- 2020-2030 -- 2030-2040 -- 2040-2050 -- 2050-2060 -- Conclusion.

"Kieran Egan explores the three big ideas and aims of education - academic, social, and developmental growth - and exposes their flaws and fundamental incompatibility. He then proposes and describes a process called Imaginative Education that would dramatically change teaching and curriculum while delivering the skills and understanding that we all want our children to acquire. His speculative narrative of education from 2010 to 2060 - executed with wit and verve - shows how we might very well get there from here. Unlike most books dealing with fundamental educational ideas, this one also details how its new proposal can be implemented in everyday classrooms."--Jacket.

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