Teaching as story telling : an alternative approach to teaching and curriculum in the elementary school

Summary: An eminently practical guide, Teaching as Story Telling shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. In his innovative book, Kieran Egan refashions the ancient function of the storyteller with such clarity that any teacher can step into the role with confidence. Not only does Egan's book make the reader look anew at what is too often taken for granted about the ways in which children learn, it opens up a range of critical questions about our orientation to "objectives" and to either/ors when it comes to the affective and the cognitive. - Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0226190315
ISBN: 9780226190310
ISBN: 0226190323
ISBN: 9780226190327
Physical Description: print
viii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published in Canada: Althouse Press, 1986.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Imagination and learning -- Stories, metaphors and objectives -- An alternative model -- The story form across the curriculum -- The elementary school curriculum.