The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up

by Kieran Egan

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Manufacturer: Yale University Press

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.1
EAN: 9780300110463
ISBN: 0300110464
Label: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2008-09-23
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press

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Summary: Another Great Book by Kieran Egan

Comment: This latest book by Kieran Egan reviews and expands on his earlier pubications. His ideas concerning how to best educate our children are presented clearly and enthusiastically. The vital importance of stories and imagination are reinforced. The only difficulty I had was the somewhat uncomfortable perspective of looking back from the future. Perhaps that is the best way to present the material, but it made me uncomfortable. Then again, perhaps being uncomfortable is an intentional technique to awaken us from our current way of looking at education. I rate this book as 4 3/4.
Thank you Kieran.

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Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5

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 argues that education today is built on a set of mutually exclusive goals that are destined to defeat our best efforts.

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.

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