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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:24:15-0800
To: <rrhake@earthlink.net>
From: tmartin@sfu.ca
Subject: Call For Papers extended & SFU's new Online MED in
Imaginative Education
Dear all:
We have two announcements concerning Imaginative Education that we
wanted to bring to your attention for your information and
dissemination where appropriate.
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CALL FOR PROPOSAL [to the Imaginative Education
Conference <http://www.ierg.net/confs/index.php?cf=1>: March 10th,
2006, midnight pacific time
Kieran Egan
Professor of Education
Canada Research Chair in Education
Imaginative Education Research Group
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
<http://www.ierg.net
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** At least one member of each of the addressed lists contributed to
the provocative thread of September 2005 "Piaget & Dewey: Down for
the Count?" For a summary see "Piaget & Dewey: Down for the Count? -
47 Responses" [Hake (2005)].
Of Egan's book "The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our
Understanding," Howard Gardner wrote: "Kieran Egan has one of the
most original, penetrating, and capacious minds in education today.
This book provides the best introduction to his important body of
work." Gardner is scheduled to speak via interactive satellite at the
upcoming Imaginative Education conference.
REFERENCES
Egan, K. 1998. "The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our
Understanding." University of Chicago Press. For Egan's homepage
presentation of the introduction and reviews see
<http://www.educ.sfu.ca/kegan/EdMind.html>. The book's introduction
<http://www.educ.sfu.ca/kegan/EdMindIntro.html> summarizes what Ann
Fullick in the "New Scientist" calls "[Egan's] radical change of
approach for the whole process of education."
Hake, R.R. 2005. "Piaget & Dewey: Down for the Count? - 47 Responses"
AERA-L post of 29 Sep 2005 14:01:03-0700; online at
<http://tinyurl.com/mavpo>. ABSTRACT: During September 2005 an
excerpt from Stan Metzenberg's
disquieting opinion "Piaget goes down for the Long Count" was
transmitted to many discussion lists. That distribution and
subsequent cross-posting led to relatively widespread discussion
(about 47 posts), not only of Jean Piaget but also Socrates, John
Dewey, Lev Vygotsky, and Kiernan Egan's provocative "Getting it Wrong
from the Beginning: Our progressivist inheritance from Herbert
Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget." In hopes of promoting further
multidisciplinary discussion along such lines, I have placed in the
APPENDIX posts that appeared on 10 different discussion lists:
AERA-D, AERA-K,Chemed-L, Dewey-L, DrEd, Math-Learn, Phys-L, PhysLrnR,
POD, and TIPS by 19 different authors: Bellina, Clement,
Dawson-Tunik, Dykstra, Garkov, Grace, Green, Hunt, Kelly, Laitsch,
Millis, Purichia, Raimi, Rauber, Rock, Schulz, Scott, Uretsky, and
Wall.