Böcker av Kieran Egan

Amplified Silence is a mellow offering of poetry surveying a variety of natural and human landscapes both domestic and international. Egan explores life and the living in expansive depth, with vivid insight and the gentle brush of humour. In these poems, In these poems the volume-level of silence evolves to speak through life''s hazy shadows with the clear-eyed awareness of a sparkling magnifying glass. Kieran Egan excels at exploring the pleasures of memory as well as the sorrows of aging, There are many diverse journeys encompassed in this book enhanced with flashes of grace and the gratitude felt by the author for a life well-lived. These poignant poems  will long linger in the mind of the reader and continue to draw the reader back to open the book yet again, as time passes ... then passes again.  

Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family's lot in life, only wants the impossible: for his modest, straightforward wife to get tenure at her university.Luckily, Mark is a man for whom impossible is just another word. As a sophisticated importer-exporter of certain recreational substances ("drug lord" is such a cliché), Mark gets to work on the academic world with the same relentless nature that helped him climb to the top of the cartel. However, the hallowed campus halls reveal an environment that is vicious and corrupt beyond anything he has ever encountered in the drug business...

Students' imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination - one of the great workhorses of learning - can be used to make all learning and all teaching more effective.

Real education, the author explains, consists of both general knowledge and detailed understanding. He outlines an ambitious yet practical plan to incorporate deep knowledge into basic education.

In this stimulating book, Kieran Egan discusses what imagination really means for children, providing sample lesson plans to show teachers how to encourage effective learning through stimulating pupils' imagination.

One of the most highly regarded educational theorists explains that the ideas upon which American public education was founded, and which continue to dominate educational thinking, are wrong.

This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.