Name Kieran Egan | Role Educationist | |
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Born 1942
Ireland ( 1942 ) Occupation Author, Professor of Education, Canada Research Chair in Education Education Cornell University, University of London, Stanford University Books Learning in Depth: A Simple In, The Educated Mind, An Imaginative Approach, Teaching as story telling, Getting It Wrong from the Begin |
Dr kieran egan why education is difficult and contentious
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 occur during a person’s intellectual development. He has questioned the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, notably Herbert Spencer and John Dewey.
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- Dr kieran egan why education is difficult and contentious
- Biography
- Imaginative Education
- Main works
- Awards and honors
- References

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

Biography

Egan was born in 1942 in Clonmel Ireland, though he was raised and educated in England. He graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966. He subsequently worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Kingston upon Thames. He then moved to the United States and began a Ph.D in the philosophy of education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Egan completed his Ph.D at Cornell University in 1972.
Imaginative Education

Kieran Egan is the director of the Imaginative Education Research Group, which was founded by the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. The goal of this group is to improve education on a global scale by developing and proliferating the ideas of Imaginative Education
Main works

Awards and honors
