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Fifty major thinkers on education : from Confucius to Dewey

Author: Joy Palmer; Liora Bresler; David E Cooper
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series: Routledge key guides.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization's greatest minds. This work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Each essay gives biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, and assessment of his or her impact and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joy Palmer; Liora Bresler; David E Cooper
ISBN: 0415231256 9780415231251 0415231264 9780415231268
OCLC Number: 45958112
Description: xiv, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Confucius / Jianping Shen --
Socrates / Christopher J. Rowe --
Plato / David E. Cooper --
Aristotle / Peter Hobson --
Jesus of Nazareth / Connie Leean Seraphine --
Saint Augustine / P.J. FitzPatrick --
AlGhazzali / Hani A. Tawil --
Ibn Tufayl / Dalal Malhas Steitieh --
Desiderius Erasmus / G.R. Batho --
Jan Amos Comenius / Jaroslav Peprnik --
John Locke / Richard Smith --
John Wesley / Henry D. Rack --
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Timothy O'Hagan --
Immanuel Kant / Adam B. Dickerson --
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi / Daniel Trohler --
Mary Wollstonecraft / Jane Roland Martin --
Johann Gottlieb Fichte / James A. Clarke --
Wilhelm von Humboldt / Jurgen Oelkers --
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / James A. Clarke --
Johann Friedrich Herbart / Jurgen Oelkers --
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel / Daniel J. Walsh, Shunah Chung, Aysel Tufekci --
John Henry Newman / P.J. FitzPatrick --
John Stuart Mill / David E. Cooper --
Charles Darwin / Louis M. Smith --
John Ruskin / Anthony O'Hear --
Herbert Spencer / G. R. Batho --
Matthew Arnold / Anthony O'Hear --
Thomas Henry Huxley / David Knight --
Louisa May Alcott / Susan Laird --
Samuel Butler / Nel Noddings --
Robert Morant / G. R. Batho --
Eugenio Maria de Hostos / Angel Villarini Jusino, Carlos Antonio Torre --
Friedrich Nietzsche / Thomas E. Hart --
Alfred Binet / David A. Bergin, Gregory J. Cizek --
Emile Durkheim / William Pickering --
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper / Arlette Ingram Willis, Violet Harris --
John Dewey / Michael W. Apple, Kenneth Teitelbaum --
Jane Addams / Nel Noddings --
Rudolf Steiner / Jurgen Oelkers --
Rabindranath Tagore / Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson --
Alfred North Whitehead / Nancy C. Ellis --
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze / Joan Russell --
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois / Violet Harris, Arlette Ingram Willis --
M.K. Gandhi / Devi Prasad --
Maria Montessori / Jane Roland Martin --
Bertrand Russell / Ray Monk --
E.L. Thorndike / William L. Bewley, Eva L. Baker --
Martin Buber / Christine Thompson --
Jose Ortega y Gasset / Diego Sevilla --
Cyril Lodovic Burt / Jim Ridgway.
Series Title: Routledge key guides.
Responsibility: edited by Joy A. Palmer ; advisory editors, Liora Bresler and David E. Cooper.
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