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St Augustine
Av Ryan N. S. Topping, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2010
2615 kr
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This title offers a coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought, including coverage of the reception and influence of his work and its relevance today. St Augustine is indisputably a major thinker in education. Ryan Topping's volume offers the most coherent account of St Augustine's …
E. G. West
Av James Tooley
E-bok, 2014
2878 kr
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What role should government have in education? This question has exercised philosophers since Plato and economists since Adam Smith. It is also a question that is as relevant today, as people around the world worry about standards in public (government) schools and governments and international …
Pierre Bourdieu
Av Michael James Grenfell, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2007
2341 kr
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Pierre Bourdieu is indisputably a major thinker in education. Michael Grenfell's volume offers the most coherent account of Bourdieu's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of Bourdieu's work; the reception and influence of Bourdieu's work; and …
Jerome Bruner
Av David R. Olson, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2007
2615 kr
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Jerome Bruner is indisputably a major thinker in education. David Olson's volume offers the most coherent account of Bruner's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of Bruner's work; the reception and influence of Bruner's work; the relevance of …
John Holt
Av Roland Meighan, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2007
2615 kr
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John Holt is indisputably a major thinker in education. Roland Meighan's volume offers the most coherent account of Holt's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of Holt's work; and the reception and influence of Holt's work and the relevance of …
Maria Montessori
Av Marion O'Donnell, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2007
2615 kr
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Maria Montessori is indisputably a major thinker in education. Marion O'Donnell's volume offers the most coherent account of Montessori's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography, critical exposition of Montessori's work, and, the reception and influence of …
John Henry Newman
Inbunden, 2007
2615 kr
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John Henry Newman is indisputably a major thinker in education. James Arthur and Guy Nicholls' volume offers the most coherent account of Newman's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Newman's work; and, The reception, influence and …
Plato
Av Robin Barrow, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2007
2615 kr
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Plato is indisputably a major thinker in education. Robin Barrow's volume offers the most coherent account of Plato's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography, critical exposition of Plato's work, and, the reception and influence of Plato's work and the relevance of …
Lev Vygotsky
Av René van der Veer, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2007
2615 kr
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A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The …
Jean Piaget
Av Richard Kohler, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2008
2615 kr
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Jean Piaget is indisputably a major thinker in education. Richard Kohler's volume offers the most coherent account of Piaget's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Piaget's work; The reception and influence of Piaget's work; and, The …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Av Jurgen Oelkers, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2008
2615 kr
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is indisputably a major thinker in education. Jurgen Oelkers' volume offers the most coherent account of Rousseau's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Rousseau's work; The reception and influence of Rousseau's; and, …
E. G. West
Av James Tooley, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2008
2615 kr
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E.G. West is indisputably a major thinker in education. James Tooley's volume offers the most coherent account of West's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of West's work; the reception and influence of West's work; and, the relevance of the …
Mary Wollstonecraft
Av Susan Laird, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2008
2615 kr
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Mary Wollstonecraft is indisputably a major thinker in education. Susan Laird's volume offers the most coherent account of Wollstonecraft's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Wollstonecraft's work; The reception and influence of …
Rudolf Steiner
Av Heiner Ullrich, Richard Bailey
Inbunden, 2008
2615 kr
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Rudolf Steiner is indisputably a major thinker in education. Heiner Ullrich's volume offers the most coherent account of Steiner's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Steiner's work; The reception and influence of Steiner's work; and, The …
R. S. Peters
Av Stefaan E. Cuypers, Christopher Martin
E-bok, 2014
2423 kr
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What does it mean to say that someone is an educated person? How do we know what's worth including in a school curriculum? Is a good moral education about developing good habits, or critical thinking? What role does the development of knowledge and understanding play in living a good life? These …
John Holt
E-bok, 2014
2815 kr
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John Holt, the American educator, was passionate about the need for alternatives to traditional institutional schooling, seeing schools as often hindering children from learning rather than helping them; he became an important proponent of homeschooling or 'unschooling', was a pioneer in youth …
Leo Tolstoy
E-bok, 2014
563 kr
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How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His …
Michel Foucault
Av Lynn Fendler
E-bok, 2014
576 kr
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Michel Foucault's influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines, his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy, history, literary criticism and political theory. Focusing on the implications of Foucault's theories for education, whilst characterizing them as …
Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia Experience
Av Kathy Hall, Mary Horgan m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
576 kr
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The Municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy, are renowned world-wide for the excellence of their provision. This approach provides a unique collaboration between children, parents, teachers and the wider community.Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia Experience brings together the …
R. S. Peters
Av Stefaan E. Cuypers, Christopher Martin
E-bok, 2014
2423 kr
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What does it mean to say that someone is an educated person? How do we know what's worth including in a school curriculum? Is a good moral education about developing good habits, or critical thinking? What role does the development of knowledge and understanding play in living a good life? These …
Plato
Av Robin Barrow
E-bok, 2014
580 kr
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Plato was the first and most formidable thinker to recognise that education is a fiercely contested concept, and to point out what great social and personal issues are at stake in education. He articulated a compelling argument for a liberal arts education as something peculiarly befitting free and …
Jean Piaget
E-bok, 2014
576 kr
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Jean Piaget was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. His influence on developmental psychology, education and epistemology has been enormous. This text undertakes a reconstruction of the contexts and intellectual development of Piaget's numerous texts in the wide-ranging fields of …
John Locke
E-bok, 2014
576 kr
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John Locke is one of the great minds in educational history. Drawing on his perceptive observations of families and children he saw the importance of adapting learning to the child's dispositions. Critical of schools, he is the fountainhead of home tutoring, child-centred learning, and the …
Mary Wollstonecraft
Av Susan Laird
E-bok, 2014
563 kr
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Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises. …
Pierre Bourdieu
E-bok, 2014
651 kr
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The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century. He made his name in seminal texts such as The Inheritors and Reproduction in which he analysed academic discourse and showed how differences in …
St Thomas Aquinas
E-bok, 2014
591 kr
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It may be surprising that the thought of a medieval theologian still informs many areas of intellectual debate, but there continues to be lively interest in the work of Thomas Aquinas. He considers the most radical questions for our thinking about education: what is a human being? what does it mean …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
E-bok, 2014
2878 kr
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, enlightenment philosopher and founder of 'natural education', is one of the most influential philosophers of education in the western world. In order to fully understand Rousseau's impact as a true educational thinker, Jurgen Oelkers argues that we must take into account his …
St Augustine
E-bok, 2010
576 kr
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After setting Augustine's thought firmly within the context of his life and times, Ryan Topping examines in turn the causes of education (the purposes, pedagogy, curriculum, and limits of learning) as Augustine understood them. Augustine's towering influence over Medieval and Renaissance theorists …
Rudolf Steiner
E-bok, 2014
592 kr
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Rudolf Steiner is one of the most controversially judged educational reformers of the twentieth century. Although he received little recognition within his field, his educational thought has had a sustained and profound influence, not only in the development of the Waldorf Schools, but also in …
Robert Owen
Av Robert A. Davis, Frank O’Hagan
E-bok, 2014
576 kr
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This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen's radical new visions for learning and teaching, adult and vocational pedagogy and social transformation are …
