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Kieran Egan
Dr. Kieran Egan is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, and the founder and director of the Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG). He is the author of about a dozen books, and co-author, editor, or co-editor of a few more. He is author of over one hundred articles. In 1991 he received the Grawemeyer Award in Education. In 1993 he was elected as the first person in Education to the Royal Society of Canada. In 2000 he was elected as a Foreign Associate member of the (U.S.A.) National Academy of Education. In 2001 he was appointed to a Canada Research Chair in Education, and won a Killam Senior Research Scholarship. His various books have been translated into more than half a dozen European and Asian languages. His recent books include, The Educated Mind: How cognitive tools shape our understanding (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997); Building my Zen Garden (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000); Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our progressivist inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002); An imaginative approach to teaching (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2005); Teaching literacy: Engaging the imagination of new readers and writers (Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2006); and, The future of education: Reimagining our schools from the ground up (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008).
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