The Educated Mind : How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding

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Summary: Insight into the "kinds" of understandings.
Review: Egan's book challenges us to rethink our educational process in relation to his idea of multiple kinds of understandings.Education in the future must be seen as a sequence of these understandings in order for students to devlop specific intellectual tools. Through his studies you will explore cultual and linguistic history to learn more about our human brain. He provides theory, insight and concrete advice for educators today.