TY  - GEN
AU  - Egan, Kieran
TI  - The educated mind: how cognitive tools shape our understanding
SN  - 9780226190396
U1  - 370.1 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Education - Philosophy
KW  - Cognition and culture
KW  - Civilization, Western - History
KW  - Educational anthropology
KW  - Educational sociology
KW  - Learning, Psychology of Teaching
KW  - Psycholinguistics
N2  - The Educated Mind offers a bold and revitalizing new vision for today's uncertain educational system. Kieran Egan reconceives education, taking into account how we learn. He proposes the use of particular "intellectual tools"—such as language or literacy—that shape how we make sense of the world. These mediating tools generate successive kinds of understanding: somatic, mythic, romantic, philosophical, and ironic. Egan's account concludes with practical proposals for how teaching and curriculum can be changed to reflect the way children learn.
ER  -