Fifty modern thinkers on education : from Piaget to the present day / edited by Joy A. Palmer ; advisory editors, Liora Bresler and David E. Cooper.

By:

Palmer, Joy

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge key guidesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: xv, 290 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0415224098 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

370.9 PAL

Contents:

Alphabetical list of contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- A.S. Neill, 1883-1973 / Peter Hobson -- Susan Isaacs, 1885-1948 / Robert Hinshelwood -- Harold Rugg, 1886-1960 / Stephen J. Thornton -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, 189-1951 / Nicholas C. Burbules and Michael Peters -- Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976 / Michael Bonnett -- Herbert Edward Read, 1893-1968 / Stephen Mark Dobbs -- Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, 1896-1934 / Alexander Ardichvili -- Jean Piaget, 1896-1980 / Leslie Smith -- Michael Oakeshott, 1901-92 / Anthony O\'Hear -- Carl Rogers, 1902-87 / Eleanor Feinberg and Walter Feinberg -- Ralph Winifred Tyler, 1902-94 / Elliot W. Eisner -- Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-90 / Torsten Husén -- Harry Broudy, 1905-98 / Liora Bresler -- Simone Weil, 1909-43 / Richard Smith -- Joseph J. Schwab, 1910-88 / Ian Westbury and Margery D. Osborne -- Clark Kerr, 1911- / Debra D. Bragg and Frankie S. Laanan -- Benjamin S. Bloom, 1913-99 / Torsten Husén -- Jerome S. Bruner, 1915- / Howard Gardner -- Torsten Husén, 1916- / T. Neville Postlewaite -- Lee J. Cronbach, 1916- / Torsten Husén -- Donald Thomas Campbell, 1916-96 / Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon -- Maxine Greene, 1917- / Christine Thompson -- R.S. Peters, 1919- / John White -- John I. Goodlad, 1920- / Jianping Shen -- Paulo Freire, 1921- / Michael W. Apple, Luis Armando Gandin and Álvara Moreira Hypolito -- t Seymour B. Sarason, / Andrew Hargreaves -- Israel Scheffler, 1923- / Harvey Siegel -- Jean-François Lyotard, 1924-98 / Michalinos Zembylas -- Lawrence A. Cremin, 1925-90 / James D. Anderson -- Basil Bernstein F., 1925-2000 / Ivor F. Goodson -- Michel Foucault, 1926-84 / Michael Peters -- Margaret Donaldson, 1926- / Martin Hughes -- Ivan Illich, 1926- / David A. Gabbard and Dana L. Stuchul -- Lawrence Kohlberg, 1927-87 / K. Peter Kuchinke -- Paul H. Hirst, 1927- / Terence H. McLaughlin -- Philip Wesley Jackson, 1928- / Elliot W. Eisner -- Jane Roland Martin, 1929- / Susan Laird -- Nel Noddings, 1929- / David J. Flinders -- Jürgen Habermas, 1929- / Keith Morrison -- Carl Bereiter, 1930- / David R. Olson -- Pierre Bourdieu, 1930- / Ingólfur Ásgeir Jóhannesson and Thomas S. Popkewitz -- Neil Postman, 1931- / Dan Inbar -- Theodore R. Sizer, 1932- / Tamar Levin -- Elliot Eisner, 1933- / P. Bruce Uhrmacher -- John White, 1931- / Eamonn Callan -- Lee S. Shulman, 1938- / Pam Grossman and Sam Wineburg -- Michael W. Apple, 1942- / Carlos Antonio Torre -- Howard Gardner, 1943- / Mindy L. Kornhaber -- Henry Giroux, 1943- / Keith Morrison -- Linda Darling-Hammond, 1951- / Ann Lieberman.

Summary: Looks at fifty of the twentieth century\'s most significant contributors to the debate on education. 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references.

Looks at fifty of the twentieth century\'s most significant contributors to the debate on education. 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

1 1883-1973
2 1885-1948
3 1886-1960
4 1889-1951
5 1889-1976
6 1893-1968
7 1896-1934
8 1896-1980
9 1901-1980
10 1902-1987
11 1902-1992
12 1904-1990
13 1905-1998
14 1909-1943
15 1910-1998
16 1911
17 1913-1999
18 1915
19 1916
20 1916
21 1916-1996
22 1917-
23 1919
24 1919
25 1920
26 1921-1997
27 1923
28 1924-1998
29 1925-1990
30 1925-2000
31 1926-1984
32 1926
33 1926
34 1927-1987
35 1927
36 1928
37 1929
38 1929
39 1929
40 1930
41 1930
42 1931
43 1932
44 1933
45 1934
46 1938
47 1942
48 1934
49 1934
50 1951-

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Joy A. Palmer is Professor of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Durham. She is Vice President of the National Association for Environmental Education, and a member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication.