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.

"I am very impressed by the practicality of [Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating, and its various possibilities in a range of fields makes it worth a good look by many kinds of teachers."—Maxine Greene, Teachers College, Columbia