Children's minds, talking rabbits & clockwork oranges : essays on education / Kieran Egan ; foreword by Elliot W. Eisner.
Material type: TextSeries: Critical issues in curriculumPublication details: New York : Teachers College Press, c1999.Description: xiv, 200 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0807738085 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807738077 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Children's minds, talking rabbits, and clockwork oranges
- Children's minds
- 370.11 EGA 21
- LB41 .E382 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191) and index.
Foreword / Elliot W. Eisner -- Children's Minds. 1. Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education. 2. Narrative and Learning: A Voyage of Implications. 3. Teaching the Romantic Mind. 4. Conceptions of Development in Education -- Curriculum Issues. 5. Letting Our Presuppositions Think for Us. 6. The Arts as "the Basics" of Education. 7. Clashing Armies in the Curriculum Wars. 8. Educating and Socializing: The Curriculum Wars Continued -- Clockwork Oranges. 9. Social Studies and the Erosion of Education. 10. Metaphors in Collision: Objectives, Assembly Lines, and Stories. 11. The Analytic and the Arbitrary in Educational Research.
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