How to teach adults using a learner-centered, dialogue approach, plus how to design lessons, workshops, and programs.

An eminently practical guide, Teaching as Story Telling shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. In his innovative book, Kieran Egan refashions the ancient function of the storyteller with such clarity that any teacher can step into the role with confidence. Not only does Egan's book make the reader look anew at what is too often taken for granted about the ways in which children learn, it opens up a range of critical questions about our orientation to "objectives" and to either/ors when it comes to the affective and the cognitive. - Back cover.

"Presents concrete methods of incorporating storytelling by students of all ages into classroom practice to help teachers meet U.S. education standards of reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing"--Provided by publisher.

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Helping children deal with their problems before misbeliefs become deeply entrenched.

A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.

McCain concisely lays out the argument for preparing students for their world, guiding them to become independent and successful critical thinkers.