Kieran Egan was born in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, and educated in England, receiving a BA in history. He then went to California to work with IBM Corp. as a consultant while beginning a PhD at Stanford University, which he completed at Cornell University in 1972. His first academic job was at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, where he remained till his recent retirement. His academic work dealt with innovative educational theory and detailed practical methods whereby implications of the theory can be applied in everyday classrooms. He focused on the nature and development of imagination, and argued for its centrality in learning and the construction of meaning. There have been about forty translations of his books into around twenty languages. He and his wife have three children and five grandchildren —all, of course, wonderful, and all the children produce books of various kinds. During his academic life he gave talks in most European countries, and throughout Asia, South America, and Australasia. He also writes poetry and has published in many Canadian, British, Irish, and USA magazines. His first poetry book, Amplified Silence, was published by Silver Bow Publishing in 2021, and his second, Seven Oaks Ago, from the same publisher appeared in 2022. He has an interest in Japanese-style gardens, and built one at the rear of his house, which resulted in a book, Building My Zen Garden, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), and also a TV program in the Recreating Eden series. He was an athlete when younger—quite good at long-jump and triple-jump—but after four operations, he now has metal screws in his knees. He lives in Vancouver, BC

Selected Publications:

Egan, Kieran, Gillian Judson and Bob Dunton. Whole School Projects: Engaging Imaginations through Interdisciplinary (Inquiry. New York: Teachers College Press, 2014)

Egan, Kieran, trans. [Korean]. Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling (Seoul: Hakjisa Publishing, 2014)

Egan, Kieran, trans. [Lithuanian]. Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling (Vilnius: Alternatyvusis Ugdymas, 2014)

Egan, Kieran, trans. [Korean] The Future of Education: Reimagining our Schools from the Ground Up (Seoul: Hakjisa Publishing, 2014)

The LiDKit: Resources for Implementing the Learning in Depth Program (Pacific Educational Press 2013) $100.00 9781926966151

Book plus media

Seven Oaks Ago (Silver Bow Publishing, 2022) $23.95 9781774031919

Tenure (NeWest Press, 2021) $21.95 97811774390306

Amplified Science (Silver Bow Publishing, 2021) $23.95 9781774031575

Wonder-Full Education: The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum - coedited with Annabelle Cant and Gillian Judson (Routledge 2013)

Building My Zen Garden (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)

Children's Minds, Middle Class Rabbits, and Clockwork Oranges: Essays on Education (Teachers College Press, 1999)

Narrative in Teaching, Learning and Research (University of Chicago Press, 1977)

Imagination in Teaching and Learning (University of Chicago Press, 1992)

Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15 (Routledge, 1990)

Primary Understanding. Education in Early Childhood (Routledge, 1988)

Imagination and Education (Teachers College Press, 1988)

Literacy, Society and Schooling (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Teaching as Story Telling (Althouse Press, 1986)

Individual Development and the Curriculum (Hutchinson, 1986)

Education and Psychology: Plato, Piaget, and Scientific Psychology (Teachers College Press, 1983)

The Erosion of Education: Socialization and the Schools (Teachers College Press, 1981)

Educational Development (Oxford University Press, 1979)

Ethics and Educational Policy (Routledge, 1978)

Structural Communication (Fearon, 1976)

The Tudor Peace (University of London Press, 1969)

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