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1. Wonder-Full Education

   The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum

   Edited by Kieran Egan, Annabella I. Cant, Gillian Judson

   For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how...

   To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)

   Edited by Kenneth A. Strike, Kieran Egan

   This is a philosophical treatment of the conceptual and normative aspects of topics which are currently a matter of policy debate in education. The authors have focussed on such concepts as liberty, autonomy, equality and pluralism, and have provided a philosophical commentary which relates these...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Individual Development and the Curriculum

   By Kieran Egan

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This 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 educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature, this...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Primary Understanding

   Education in Early Childhood

   By Kieran Egan

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Beginning 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 foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. Education and Psychology

   Plato, Piaget and Scientific Psychology

   By Kieran Egan

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Psychology of education has long held a place in the curriculum for training teachers but what implications can psychological theory legitimately have for educational practice? In this book the author makes a direct attack on the current role of psychology in education, showing important...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Imagination in Teaching and Learning

   Ages 8 to 15

   By Kieran Egan

   Young 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, however, difficult to define imagination in practice and even more difficult to make full use of its...

   Published May 20th 1992 by Routledge