Palmer, Joy.

Fifty modern thinkers on education : from Piaget to the present day / edited by Joy A. Palmer ; advisory editors, Liora Bresler and David E. Cooper. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. - xv, 290 p. ; 22 cm. - Routledge key guides .

Includes bibliographical references.

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

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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Education--Philosophy--History--20th century.
Educators--Biography.
Education--History--20th century.

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