Publisher's Synopsis
This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents a comprehensive view of the impact of Romanticism on education over the course of the last two centuries. Romanticism's reconception of self, nature, writing and the imagination forms a chapter of intellectual history that has led to a number of innovative programmes in the schools. The book returns to the educational thinking of key figures from the time - Rousseau, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Coleridge - before charting their influence on such historical and contemporary developments as Montessori schools, art education, free schools and current writing programmes.
