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Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day » (1st Edition)
Authors: Joy A. Palmer
ISBN-13: 9780415224093, ISBN-10: 0415224098
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Joy A. Palmer
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.
Book 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.
Table of Contents
| Alphabetical list of contents | ||
| Notes on contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| A. S. Neill, 1883-1973 | 1 | |
| Susan Isaac, 1885-1948 | 6 | |
| Harold Rugg, 1886-1960 | 10 | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951 | 15 | |
| Martin Heidegger, 1889-1951 | 23 | |
| Herbert Edward Read, 1893-1968 | 28 | |
| Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, 1896-1934 | 33 | |
| Jean Piaget, 1896-1980 | 37 | |
| Michael Oakeshott, 1901-92 | 44 | |
| Carl Rogers, 1902-87 | 49 | |
| Ralph Winifred Tyler, 1902-87 | 54 | |
| Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-90 | 58 | |
| Harry Broudy, 1905-98 | 64 | |
| Simone Weil, 1909-43 | 69 | |
| Joseph J. Schwab, 1910-88 | 73 | |
| Clark Kerr, 1911- | 79 | |
| Benjamin S. Bloom, 1913-99 | 86 | |
| Jerome S. Bruner, 1915- | 90 | |
| Torsten Husen, 1916- | 96 | |
| Lee J. Cronbach, 1916- | 102 | |
| Donald Thomas Campbell, 1916-96 | 105 | |
| Maxine Greene, 1917- | 112 | |
| R. S. Peters, 1919- | 118 | |
| John I. Goodlad, 1920- | 122 | |
| Paulo Freire, 1921-97 | 128 | |
| Seymour B. Sarason, 1919- | 133 | |
| Israel Scheffler, 1923- | 142 | |
| Jean-Francois Lyotard, 1924-98 | 148 | |
| Lawrence A. Cremin, 1925-90 | 154 | |
| Basil Bernstein F., 1925-2000 | 161 | |
| Michel Foucault, 1926-84 | 170 | |
| Margaret Donaldson, 1926- | 175 | |
| Ivan Illich, 1926- | 181 | |
| Lawrence Kohlberg, 1927-87 | 188 | |
| Paul H. Hirst, 1927- | 193 | |
| Philip Wesley Jackson, 1928- | 199 | |
| Jane Roland Martin, 1929- | 203 | |
| Nel Noddings, 1929- | 210 | |
| Jurgen Habermas, 1929- | 215 | |
| Carl Bereiter, 1930- | 224 | |
| Pierre Bourdieu, 1930- | 229 | |
| Neil Postman, 1931- | 234 | |
| Theodore R. Sizer, 1932- | 241 | |
| Elliot Eisner, 1933- | 247 | |
| John White, 1934- | 252 | |
| Lee S. Shulman, 1938- | 257 | |
| Michael W. Apple, 1942 | 263 | |
| Howard Gardner, 1943- | 272 | |
| Henry Giroux, 1943- | 280 | |
| Linda Darling-Hammond, 1951- | 285 |
Subjects
Biography
All Biography Education Biography
Education & Teaching Educational Theory, Research & History Education - History
Education & Teaching Social & Political Aspects of Education Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects
Nonfiction Philosophy Major Branches of Philosophical Study
Nonfiction Philosophy Renaissance & Modern Philosophy
Nonfiction All Nonfiction Education - Social & Political Aspects
Nonfiction All Nonfiction Education Biography
Philosophy Major Branches of Philosophical Study Education, Philosophy of
Philosophy Renaissance & Modern Philosophy Modern Philosophy - 20th Century
Nonfiction Biography All Biography
All Biography Education BiographyEducation & Teaching
Educational Theory, Research & History Education - HistoryEducation & Teaching
Social & Political Aspects of Education Education - Philosophy & Social AspectsNonfiction
Philosophy Major Branches of Philosophical StudyNonfiction
Philosophy Renaissance & Modern PhilosophyNonfiction
All Nonfiction Education - Social & Political AspectsNonfiction
All Nonfiction Education BiographyPhilosophy
Major Branches of Philosophical Study Education, Philosophy ofPhilosophy
Renaissance & Modern Philosophy Modern Philosophy - 20th CenturyNonfiction
Biography All Biography
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