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

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Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education

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

3.62 (45 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 27 September, 2001

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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9780415224086
ISBN10 041522408X
Number Of Pages 320
Item Weight 750 g
Publisher / Reseller Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format hardback
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Author's Bio

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.

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