| Description |
xiv, 254 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge key guides |
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Routledge key guides.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Confucius, 551-479 BCE / Jianping Shen -- Socrates, 469-399 BCE / Christopher J. Rowe -- Plato, 427-347 BCE / David E. Cooper -- Aristotle, 384-322 BCE / Peter Hobson -- Jesus of Nazareth, 4 BCE-AD 29 / Connie Leean Seraphine -- Saint Augustine, 354-430 / P.J. FitzPatrick -- Al-Ghazzali, 1058-1111 / Hani A. Tawil -- Ibn Tufayl, c. 1106-85 / Dalal Malhas Steitieh -- Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536 / G.R. Batho -- Jan Amos Comenius, 1592-1670 / Jaroslav Peprnik -- John Locke, 1632-1704 / Richard Smith -- John Wesley, 1703-91 / Henry D. Rack -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-78 / Timothy O'Hagan -- Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 / Adam B. Dickerson -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, 1746-1827 / Daniel Thröhler -- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-97 / Jane Roland Martin -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762-1814 / James A. Clarke -- Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1767-1835 / Jürgen Oelkers -- |
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770-1831 / James A. Clarke --Johann Friedrich Herbart, 1776-1841 / Jürgen Oelkers -- Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel, 1782-1852 / Daniel J. Walsh, Shunah Chung, Aysel Tufekci -- John Henry Newman, 1801-90 / P.J. FitzPatrick -- John Stuart Mill, 1806-73 / David E. Cooper -- Charles Darwin, 1809-82 / Louis M. Smith -- John Ruskin, 1819-1900 / Anthony O'Hear -- Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903 / G.R. Batho -- Matthew Arnold, 1822-88 / Anthony O'Hear -- Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-95 / David Knight -- Louisa May Alcott, 1832-88 / Susan Laird -- Samuel Butler, 1835-1902 / Nel Noddings -- Robert Morant, 1836-1920 / G.R. Batho -- Eugenio María de Hostos, 1839-1903 / Angel Villarini Jusino, Carlos Antonio Torre -- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 / Thomas E. Hart -- Alfred Binet, 1857-1911 / David A. Bergin, Gregory J. Cizek -- |
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Émile Durkheim, 1858-1917 / William Pickering -- Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, 1858-1964 / Arlette Ingram Willis, Violet Harris -- John Dewey, 1859-1952 / Michael W. Apple, Kenneth Teitelbaum -- Jane Addams, 1860-1935 / Nel Noddings -- Rudolf Steiner, 1861-1925 / Jürgen Oelkers -- Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 / Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson -- Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947 / Nancy C. Ellis -- Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, 1865-1950 / Joan Russell -- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1868-1963 / Violet Harris, Arlette Ingram Willis -- M.K. Gandhi, 1869-1948 / Devi Prasad -- Maria Montessori, 1870-1952 / Jane Roland Martin -- Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970 / Ray Monk -- E.L. Thorndike, 1874-1949 / William L. Bewley, Eva L. Baker -- Martin Buber, 1878-1965 / Christine Thompson -- José Ortega y Gasset, 1883-1955 / Diego Sevilla -- Cyril Lodovic Burt, 1883-1971 / Jim Ridgway. |
| Summary |
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 influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading. |
| Subject |
Education -- Philosophy -- History.
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Educators -- Biography.
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Education -- History.
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| Added Author |
Palmer-Cooper, Joy A.
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Bresler, Liora.
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Cooper, David E. (David Edward), 1942-
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| ISBN |
0415231264 |
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9780415231268 |
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