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This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effec...

Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject ma...

The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in e...

Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject ma...

"A fascinating piece of writing, presenting ideas that are fresh and exciting." -Katherine Taddie Kelly, Literacy Coach and Reading Interventionist...

"A fascinating piece of writing, presenting ideas that are fresh and exciting." -Katherine Taddie Kelly, Literacy Coach and Reading Interventionist...

Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan co...

This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effec...

Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan co...

Students’ imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such belie...

"I am very impressed by the practicality of [Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinat...