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The Educated Mind: How cognitive tools shape our understanding.

"Kieran Egan has one of the most original, penetrating, and capacious minds in education today. This book provides the best introduction to his important body of work."
Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind ,Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice , etc.

Book cover, hardback

Available from: University of Chicago Press, or Amazon

You may read the Introduction here.

Teaching as Story Telling

"Egan's book makes the reader look anew at what is too often taken for granted about the ways in which children learn . . . I am very impressed by the practicality of his introduction of the use of the story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating, and its various possibilities in a range of fields makes it worth a good look by many kinds of teachers." Maxine Greene, Teachers' College, Columbia Univeristy.

Book cover, Chicago University Press edition

Available from University of Chicago Press, or Amazon

You may read the Introduction here.

Imagination in Teaching and Learning

This book describes "strategies for animating even the most outwardly prosaic of lessons. His prescribed transfusion of imagination into . . .classroom education comes practically packaged and lucidly labelled, with a nice balance between scholarly exposition and constructive suggestion--and lightened by flashes of wit." Alan Klottrup, Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Available from University of Chicago Press, or Amazon.

You may read the Introduction here.

Mita and the Ograk

From $14.78
In Mita and the Ograk, a young girl is kidnapped by a grotesque monster and forced to tend his stolen sheep. Her only chance of survival is to outwit and outcount the monstrous Ograk and devise clever counting methods to keep track of his ever-increasing flock of sheep. Through the character of Mita, this mathematical fable recapitulates some the ingenious counting methods that our ancestors invented to make counting large numbers easier over the ages.

from http://www.lulu.com/content/488024

Caterpillar's Colour Quest

From $9.43
Children, Parents and teachers alike will cherish this quest for colour and self discovery. In Caterpillar’s Colour Quest, a plain little caterpillar sets out on a quest of self-discovery. He discovers the primary colours, but being a little cheeky, rejects the gifts of colours he is given and sets off to find ‘something different’. Eventually with the help of wise Ms. Rainbow, the little caterpillar comes to realize that the multitude of colours he seeks is already within him (the primary colours that he had already been given) and that he must take these gifts to create the new colours he seeks and become a beautiful butterfly. Caterpillar's Colour Quest is also a lesson on colour mixing and a great resource for any primary teacher. A lesson plan is available as a companion to the story.

from http://www.lulu.com/content/521374

The Power to Choose and the Lorax

From $7.25
This cooperative unit uses the story of the Lorax by Dr. Seuss to investigate legal issues and how the choices people make affect others. Students will assume the roles of the story's characters and legal representatives when the Once-ler is tried for criminal negligence. A mock court hearing determines whether the Once-ler is responsible for the environmental catastrophe. After the trial, the class continues to work with the story in a creative writing assignment in which the students create a sequel and then a choose-your-own-adventure story in which they imagine different connections and consequences if other choices had been made. A surprise event occurs after the trial, once again involving the cutting of Trufula trees, but this time, the suspects are right in the school. The class will investigate the mysterious crime and become forensic scientists as they examine the clues and evidence left behind in order to solve the mystery.

from http://www.lulu.com/content/480487