Kieran Egan

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 questioned the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, notably Herbert Spencer and John Dewey.

He currently works at Simon Fraser University. His major work is The Educated Mind.

Main works

 * 1976 "Structural communication". Fearon Publishers, Belmont, Calif. ISBN 0-8224-6550-7
 * 1979 "Educational development". Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-502458-3
 * 1983 "Education and psychology : Plato, Piaget, and scientific psychology". Teachers College Press, Columbia University, New York ; London. ISBN 0-8077-2717-2
 * 1988 "Primary understanding : education in early childhood". Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90003-4
 * 1988 "Imagination and education". Teachers College Press, New York. ISBN 0-8077-2878-0
 * 1989 "Teaching as story telling : an alternative approach to teaching and curriculum in the elementary school". University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-19031-5
 * 1990 "Romantic understanding : the development of rationality and imagination, ages 8-15". Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90050-6
 * 1992 "Imagination in teaching and learning : the middle school years". University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-19033-1
 * 1997 "The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding". University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-19036-6
 * 1999 "Children's minds, talking rabbits & clockwork oranges : essays on education". Teachers College Press, New York. ISBN 0-8077-3808-5
 * 2002 "Getting it wrong from the beginning : our progressivist inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget". Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-09433-7
 * 2005 "An imaginative approach to teaching". Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA. ISBN 0-7879-7157-X
 * 2006 "Teaching literacy: engaging the imagination of new readers and writers". Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif. ISBN 1-4129-2788-9