The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding / Kieran Egan.
The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding / Kieran Egan.
The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding / Kieran Egan.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1997.
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N370.1/396
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English
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x, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1997.
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Illinois
Date Published
c1997.
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Not content with a radical diagnosis, Egan presents us with a new and sophisticated alternative. Egan reconceives education as our learning to use particular "intellectual tools" - such as language or literacy - which shape how we make sense of the world. These mediating tools generate successive kinds of understanding: somatic, mythic, romantic, p...
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The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding / Kieran Egan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index.
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c1997.
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N370.1/396
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0226190366 (alk. paper) :
9780226190365 (alk. paper)
0226190366 (alk. paper)
9780226190396 (pbk.)
0226190390 (pbk.)
9780226190365 (alk. paper) :
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370.1
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991005344739702626
