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Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood

Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood

Paperback

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

General ReferenceGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1138008451
ISBN13: 9781138008458
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 4 2014
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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. Egan sees education as the acquisition of these sets of sense-making capacities, available in our culture, and his goal is to conceptualize primary education in a way that over comes the dichotomy between progressivisim and traditionalism, attending both the needs of the individual child and the accumulation of knowledge.

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