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Fifty major thinkers on education : from Confucius to Dewey / edited by Joy A. Palmer ; advisory editors, Liora Bresler and David E. Cooper.

Contributor(s): Palmer, Joy, 1951- | Bresler, Liora | Cooper, David E. (David Edward), 1942-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge key guides.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Description: xiv, 254 p. : 23 cm.ISBN: 0415231256; 0415231264 .Subject(s): Education -- Philosophy -- History | Educators -- Biography | Education -- HistoryDDC classification: 370.922
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of their impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading. Together with Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education, this book provides a unique reference guide for all students of education.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CIT Module CHLD 6003 - Core reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Alphabetical list of contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Preface
  • Confucius, Socrates
  • Plato, Aristotle
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • Saint Augustine
  • Al-Ghazzali
  • Ibn Tufayl
  • Erasmus, Comenius
  • John Locke
  • John Wesley
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Johann Friedrich Herbart
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
  • John Henry Newman
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Charles Darwin
  • John Ruskin
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Matthew Arnold
  • Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Samuel Butler
  • Robert Morant
  • Eugenio Maris de Hostos
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Alfred Binet
  • Emile Durkheim
  • Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
  • John Dewey
  • Jane Addams
  • Rudolf Steiner
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Alfred North Whitehead
  • Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
  • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
  • M K Ghandhi
  • Maria Montessori
  • Bertrand Russell
  • E L Thorndike
  • Martin Buber
  • Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Cyril Lodovic Burt

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This volume, edited by Palmer, is part of the Routledge series of "Key Guides." It provides brief biographies and critical assessments of the thinking and practice of 50 of the greatest educational thinkers of the past 2,500 years. Typically, entries for each of these "greats" in the field of educational thought and practice are four to five pages in length, and in toto they cover a span from Confucius to John Dewey and Bertrand Russell. Essentially, each essay provides basic biographical information, an overview of the subject's contribution to educational thought and practice, and a brief critical reflection on his or her thinking and influence. In the style of the Encyclopedia Britannica, this volume is a quick reference that might lead interested readers to more extensive and detailed study. One could take issue with who is included or excluded from this listing, asking, for example, whether Paulo Freire's credentials outshine those of Cyril Burt. Such an exercise would ultimately prove pointless. The editors have made their selection using a broad-based definition of education and educators and have had to live within the limitations imposed by the number 50. Recommended at all levels. R. J. Reynolds Eastern Connecticut State University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Joy A. Palmer, Liora Bresler, E. Cooper