Egan+(Cathy)

__ Story rhythms __ Binary Opposites-good/bad Affective Meaning-how we feel about the characters and story. Story rhythm-a good lesson model ie.introduction, problem, conclusion. P275 When I advocate use of some features of the story format it is in order to make new knowledge meaningful and engaging to children. I will want to build into my model then some means of establishing at least some degree of story-like rhythm. This requires a particular kind of beginning that sets up an expectation (or a problem), and a conclusion that satisfies this expectation. The new model also will be alert to the importance of underlying binary opposites for engaging interest and carrying it along. They also will provide a key criterion for the selection and organization of content. P263 Egan’s ideally educated individual is one who integrates and uses the tools of understanding or multiple ways of knowing that both describe our cultural heritage and provide us with strategies for educating future generations. P263 To be truly educated you must as Bruner suggests “go beyond the information given” P262 Vygotsky “we make sense of the world by use of mediating intellectual tools that in turn profoundly indulgence the kind of sense we make.”