In this successor to "Primary Understanding" , Kieran Egan focuses on how typical eight-to-15-year-olds are engaged by knowledge and most readily make sense of experience. Beginning with the concept of Romanticism and its corresponding intellectual, emotional and aesthetic characteristics, Egan argues that the middle school years are the appropriate period for the development of what he calls "romantic understanding". He describes how an elaboration of romantic understanding will provide principles for the sequencing of the curriculum that are unlike those currently in practice.
- ISBN10 0415903483
- ISBN13 9780415903486
- Publish Date 21 December 1990
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English