Teaching as Story Telling
An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School
Author: Kieran Egan Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
An eminently practical guide, "Teaching as Story Telling" shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science.
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An eminently practical guide, "Teaching as Story Telling" shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science.
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"I am very impressed by the practicality of [Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating, and its various possibilities in a range of fields makes it worth a good look by many kinds of teachers."—Maxine Greene, Teachers College, Columbia
About the Author
Kieran Egan is professor of education, Simon Fraser University, and author of "Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget," He lives in Vancouver.
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