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There is no information as to the exact date of Kieran Egan's birth. Clonmel is located in the SE portion of Ireland.
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Joe Sheridan invents Irish Coffee- whiskey and coffee.
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<a href='http://www.educ.sfu.ca/kegan/' >SFU- Simon Fraser University
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Kieran Egan Explains the Use of Story Telling in EducationTeaching as Story Telling You Tube video
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The Grawemeyer Awards are five annual prizes given in the fields of music, political science, psychology, education and religion. They were founded by H. Charles Grawemeyer to help make the world a better place
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Also, Egan was elected as a Foreign Associate member of (U. S. A.) National Academy of Education.
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Kieran Egan explains what he means by Forming Images in the Mind.
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Kieran Egan brings out the importance of Story Telling.
This answers question #14 on page 249.
This is a quote from his video.
"'What's the story?', brings out this emotional importance, which we tend to ignore...focus on concepts and content and we don't bring out the emotional and imaginative engagement, that's a part of everything in the cirriculum." -
This is Egan's You Tube video explaining Binary Opposites, the following are answers to questions #6 and #7 on page 249. 6- The use of binary opposites sets up a structure for example- good and evil, empty and full, which can be made more complicated as the story goes on.7- "We make sense of the world by first, breaking it into opposites."
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Topic: Literacy
Subject Area: English
Cognitive Tool: Associations with the heroic One can focus on any object, or aspect of the curriculum, and project into it some heroic qualities. As students become literate and as we want them to engage with books, one could help students see what is heroic about books. In the case of the book, one might highlight the millennia of human ingenuity that have created this compact object crammed with tiny symbols that serve as an externalized memory. -
Kieran Egan explains "Learning In Depth". This is a link to his Learning in Depth Project website.
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