Kieran Egan, (born 1942) is a contemporary educational philosopher and a student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history. He has written on issues in education and child development, with an emphasis on the uses of imagination and the intellectual stages (Egan calls them understandings) that mark different ages from birth to adulthood. He has also called into question the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, … Wikipedia
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'The Educated Mind' is something very new and different ." -- C. J. Driver , The New York Times Book Review " Kieran Egan has one of the most original, penetrating, and capacious minds in education today. www.ierg.net/about/briefguide.html