# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kieran-egan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:38:01.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kieran-egan"
name: "Kieran Egan"
slug: "kieran-egan"
description: "Kieran Egan was an Irish educational philosopher and a student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history. He has written on issues in education and child development, with an emphasis on the uses of imagination and the stages that occur during a person's intellectual development. He has questioned the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, notably Herbert Spencer and John Dewey."
tagline: "Educational philosopher and student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kieran_Egan_educator.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-05-22"
deathDate: "2022-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.33
  momentum:             9.661016949152541
  historical:           5.01062
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كيران إيجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Egan_(philosopher)"
    title: "Kieran Egan (philosopher)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Egan"
    title: "Kieran Egan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Egan"
    title: "Kieran Egan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Egan_(e%C4%9Fitimci)"
    title: "Kieran Egan (eğitimci)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6405377"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump