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Romantic Understanding

The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15

by Kieran Egan ยท 1990

ISBN: 0415900506 9780415900508

Category: Education / Educational Psychology

Page count: 300

This sequel to Primary Understanding describes how middle school students are engaged by knowledge and how they make sense of experience. The author defines his theory of romantic understanding, and explains how it provides principles for the sequencing of the middle school curriculum.