An eminently practical guide, "Teaching as Story Telling" shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science.[...]
The 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, it continues, bring about clashes at every level of the educational process, from curriculum decisio[...]
The 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 ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational the[...]
This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process. Kieran Egan, a prize-winning scholar and innovative thinker, does not rail against teachers, administrators, or politicians for the failures of the school. Instead he a[...]
Det finns tre idéer som ständigt återkommer genom pedagogikens historia och som har turats om att äga företräde: att vi måste forma de unga efter de normer och konventioner som råder i samhället; att vi måste ge dem kunskaper som ser till att deras tänkande stämmer med vad som är verkli[...]
Varför ska man berätta som en saga? Sagans rytm och komposition, dess dramatiska konflikt och dess upplösning, de tydliga motsatserna godhet och ondska, mod och feghet etc. - motsatser som nyanseras - gör ny kunskap meningsfull och engagerande för eleverna.
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