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From Piaget to the Present Day
Palmer, Joy, Palmer, Joy, Cooper, David Edward
Liora Bresler, Joy Palmer, David E. Cooper
ISBN: 9780415224093
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the most significant contributors of modern times to the debate on education. Together with Fifty Major Thinkers on Education this book provides a unique history of educational thinking. 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.
Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those included are: * Pierre Bourdieu * Elliot Eisner * Hans J. Eysenck * Michel Focault * Henry Giroux * Jurgen Habermas * Susan Isaacs * A.S. Neill * Herbert Read * Simone Weill. Together with Fifty Major Thinkers on Education this book provides a unique history of educational thinking. Each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence and a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.
| ISBN | 0415224098 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780415224093
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 340 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Routledge | | Series editor | Osborne, Neville N., Osborne, Neville N., Osborne, Neville N. | | Format | Paperback | | Series ISSN | 0956-463 | | Publication date | 27 Sep 2001 | | Series title | Routledge Key Guides | | Library of Congress | 2001019308 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | DEWEY | 370.922 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | Pages | 320 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Alphabetical list of contents | | | | | | Notes on contributors | | | | | | Preface | | | | | | A. S. Neill, 1883-1973 by Peter Hobson | | 1 | | | | Susan Isaac, 1885-1948 by Robert Hinshelwood | | 6 | | | | Harold Rugg, 1886-1960 by Stephen J. Thornton | | 10 | | | | Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951 by Nicholas C. Burbules and Michael Peters | | 15 | | | | Martin Heidegger, 1889-1951 by Michael Bonnett | | 23 | | | | Herbert Edward Read, 1893-1968 by Stephen Mark Dobbs | | 28 | | | | Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, 1896-1934 by Alexander Ardichvilli | | 33 | | | | Jean Piaget, 1896-1980 by Leslie Smith | | 37 | | | | Michael Oakeshott, 1901-92 by Anthony O'Hear | | 44 | | | | Carl Rogers, 1902-87 by Eleanor Feinberg and Walter Feinberg | | 49 | | | | Ralph Winifred Tyler, 1902-87 by Elliot W. Eisner | | 54 | | | | Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-90 by Torsten Husen | | 58 | | | | Harry Broudy, 1905-98 by Liora Bresler | | 64 | | | | Simone Weil, 1909-43 by Richard Smith | | 69 | | | | Joseph J. Schwab, 1910-88 by Ian Westhury and Margery D. Osborne | | 73 | | | | Clark Kerr, 1911- by Debra D. Bragg and Frankle S. Laanan | | 79 | | | | Benjamin S. Bloom, 1913-99 by Torsten Husen | | 86 | | | | Jerome S. Bruner, 1915- by Howard Gardner | | 90 | | | | Torsten Husen, 1916- by T. Neville Postethwaite | | 96 | | | | Lee J. Cronbach, 1916- by Torsten Husen | | 102 | | | | Donald Thomas Campbell, 1916-96 by Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon | | 105 | | | | Maxine Greene, 1917- by Christine Thompson | | 112 | | | More... | | |
This volume is ambitious in scope, tightly written, and a good introduction to the thinkers represented. Recommended for graduate, research, and professional collections in education..  Be the first to write a customer review
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