[1] This book is an elaboration of some of Egan’s ideas about how the acquisition of cognitive tools can work effectively in education.

These include story form, metaphor, binary opposites, rhyme, rhythm and pattern, humor, mental imagery among others.

These include a sense of reality, interest in extremes of experience, association with heroes, connecting knowledge with human meaning, narrative understanding among others.

These half chapters include suggested planning frameworks for the preceding cognitive toolkit and a series of example lessons or units.

[3] An Imaginative Approach to Teaching received positive reviews in the Teachers College Record and the Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education.