Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education From Piaget to the Present Day - Routledge Key Guides

Joy Palmer, David E. Cooper

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415224086
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	27 Sep 2001
DEWEY:	370.922
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	368
Weight:	508g
Height:	144mm
Width:	304mm
Spine width:	27mm