Romantic understanding : the development of rationality and imagination, ages 8-15
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Romantic understanding : the development of rationality and imagination, ages 8-15
Routledge, 1990
- : pbk
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this successor to "Primary Understanding" , Kieran Egan focuses on how typical eight-to-15-year-olds are engaged by knowledge and most readily make sense of experience. Beginning with the concept of Romanticism and its corresponding intellectual, emotional and aesthetic characteristics, Egan argues that the middle school years are the appropriate period for the development of what he calls "romantic understanding". He describes how an elaboration of romantic understanding will provide principles for the sequencing of the curriculum that are unlike those currently in practice.
Table of Contents
- Romanticism, romantic understanding, and education
- the transition to literacy
- reality and its limits
- associating with the transcendent
- human and inhuman knowledge
- rebellion, ideals and boredom
- the romantic imagination and philosophic ending
- cultural recapitulation - some comments on theory
- a romantic curriculum
- romantic teaching.
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