Kieran Egan

Primary Understanding

Education in Early Childhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138008458
• ISBN-10: 1138008451
• Artikelnr.: 39712563

Autorenporträt

Kieran Egan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1 Some Educational Implications of
Children's Fantasy. 2 The Domestication of the sauvage mind 3 The Story
Form and the Organization of Meaning. 4 Some Further Characteristics of
Mythic Understanding. 5 Cultural Recapitulation: Some Comments on Theory 6
A Curriculum for Primary Education 7 A Framework for Primary Teaching.
Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.