Kieran Egan (eğitimci)

Kieran Egan (d. 22 Mayıs 1942 - ö. 12 Mayıs 2022), çağdaş eğitim filozofu, antropoloji, bilişsel psikoloji ve kültürel tarih üzerine çalışmalar yapan akademisyen yazar. Eğitimde çocuk gelişimi üzerine yayınlar hazırladı. Piaget, Herbert Spencer ve John Dewey gibi ilerici eğitimcileri sorguladı.

Halen Simon Fraser Üniversitesi'nde çalışmaktadır. Bilinen en önemli eseri Eğitimli Beyindir (The Educated Mind).

Ana Çalışmaları 
 1976 Structural Communication. Fearon Publishers, Belmont, Calif. 
 1979 Educational Development. Oxford University Press, New York. 
 1983 Education and Psychology: Plato, Piaget, and Scientific Psychology. Teachers College Press, Columbia University, New York ; Londra. 
 1988 Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood. Routledge, New York. 
 1988 Imagination and Education. Teachers College Press, New York. 
 1989 Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 
 1990 Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15. Routledge, New York. 
 1992 Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 
 1997 The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 
 1999 Children's Minds, Talking Rabbits & Clockwork Oranges: Essays on Education. Teachers College Press, New York. 
 2002 Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. Yale University Press, New Haven. 
 2005 An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA. 
 2006 Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 
 2008 The Future of Education: Reimaging Our Schools from the Ground Up. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 
 2010 Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation that Can Transform Schooling. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 
 2014 Whole School Projects: Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry. Teachers College Press, New York. 
 2015 Imagination and the Engaged Learner: Cognitive Tools for the Classroom. Teachers College Press, New York.

Kaynakça 

1942 doğumlular
2022 yılında ölenler
Grawemeyer Ödülü sahipleri
Simon Fraser Üniversitesi öğretim üyeleri
İrlandalı filozoflar
Eğitim psikologları
İrlandalı eğitimciler
Londra Üniversitesinde öğrenim görenler
Cornell Üniversitesinde öğrenim görenler