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What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

February 6, 2024·48:07

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: Did the education theories that drive today’s schools and teaching practices get off track and do they need a reset — one that gets back to earlier days of oral storytelling? That was the argument of philosopher Kieran Egan, whose educational writings have recently gotten attention.

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Did the education theories that drive today’s schools and teaching practices get off track and do they need a reset — one that gets back to earlier days of oral storytelling? That was the argument of philosopher Kieran Egan, whose educational writings have recently gotten attention.