late 19th and early 20th century), Egan suggested that these types of understanding are not "stages" that are moved through, but toolkits to be added on: the mythic toolkit modifies the somatic, the romantic modifies the mythic and somatic, and so on. Also, there is no guarantee a person will gain all the toolkits — many people do not. Personal life Egan was an atheist. He died on 12 May 2022. Main works 1976 Structural Communication. Fearon Publishers, Belmont, Calif. 1979 Educational Development. Oxford University Press, New York. 1983 Education and Psychology: Plato, Piaget, and Scientific Psychology. Teachers College Press, Columbia University, New York ; London. 1988 Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood. Routledge, New York. 1988 Imagination and Education. Teachers College Press, New York. 1989 Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1990 Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8-15. Routledge, New York. 1992 Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1997 The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1999 Children's Minds, Talking Rabbits & Clockwork Oranges: Essays on Education. Teachers College Press, New York. 2002 Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2005 An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA. 2006 Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 2008 The Future of Education: Reimaging Our Schools from the Ground Up. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 2010 Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation that Can Transform Schooling. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 2014 Whole School Projects: Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry. Teachers College Press, New York. 2015 Imagination and the Engaged Learner: Cognitive Tools for the Classroom. Teachers College Press, New York. Awards and honors 1991: University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education 1993: Elected to the Royal Society of Canada 2000: Elected as Foreign Associate member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.) 2001: Killam Research Fellowship 2001: Appointed to a Canada Research Chair in Education 2010: Utne Reader magazine listed Egan as one of the "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." References External links Homepage Egan's profile at Simon Fraser University A brief guide to imaginative education 1942 births