Kieran Egan
1942
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2022
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Republic of Ireland
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Stanford University, University of London, Cornell University, Stanford Graduate School of Education
occupation: philosopher
award received: Grawemeyer Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Kieran Egan (22 May 1942 – 12 May 2022) was an Irish 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 stages (Egan called 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. He taught at Simon Fraser University. His major work is the 1997 book The Educated Mind. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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