By: Olwen Cowan (LiD Teacher, MEd in IE) Meet the MAC Pack! I once heard a very wise man say, “Anything can be wonderful if you know enough about it.” That fellow was Dr. Kieran Egan as he was making the case for his Learning in Depth (LiD) program. I scribbled those words into my […]
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Cognitive tools–theoretical and practical examples
Where Is The Song In The Heart Of Education?
By Kieran Egan Lesson objective: To show the emotional importance of the content. For six months during a previous century—hard now to remember which one but you’ll see from what follows it doesn’t really matter—I was a Franciscan novice, in a Friary on the edge of the Surrey Downs in England. Our weekday mornings involved […]
Tips For Imaginative Educators #14: Illuminate Extremes & Limits
Books like the Guinness Book of World Records or Ripley’s Believe it or Not don’t stay on the shelf for long. Young people are often fascinated (obsessed) with the limits of experience and the extremes of reality, and these books reveal all the record-breaking aspects of the world. I recall leafing through our own home copy at about age 9 or 10, just […]