Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day

by Bresler; Liora

• ISBN13: 9780415224093
• ISBN10: 0415224098
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Fifty Contemporary Thinkers on Educationpicks up the intellectual history of educational thought whereFifty Major Thinkers on Educationleaves off and looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those included are: Hans J. Eysenck Jean Piaget Pierre Bourdieu Maria Montessori Bertrand Russell Ivan Illich Gandhi Elliot Eisner Susan Isaacs Henry Giroux Together withFifty 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	viii
Notes on contributors	x
Preface	xiv
A.S. Neill, 1883--1973	1	(5)
Peter Hobson
Susan Isaacs, 1885--1948	6	(4)
Robert Hinshelwood
Harold Rugg, 1886--1960	10	(5)
Stephen J. Thornton
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889--1951	15	(8)
Nicholas C. Burbules
Michael Peters
Martin Heidegger, 1889--1976	23	(5)
MichAel Bonnett
Herbert Edward Read, 1893--1968	28	(5)
Stephen Mark Dobbs
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, 1896--1934	33	(4)
Alexander Ardichvili
Jean Piaget, 1896--1980	37	(7)
Leslie Smith
Michael Oakeshott, 1901--92	44	(5)
Anthony O'Hear
Carl Rogers, 1902--87	49	(5)
Eleanor Feinberg
Walter Feinberg
Ralph Winifred Tyler, 1902--94	54	(4)
Elliot W. Eisner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904--90	58	(6)
Torsten Husen
Harry Broudy, 1905--98	64	(5)
Liora Bresler
Simone Weil, 1909--43	69	(4)
Richard Smith
Joseph J. Schwab, 1910--88	73	(6)
Ian Westbury
Margery D. Osborne
Clark Kerr, 1911--	79	(7)
Debra D. Bragg
Frankie S. Laanan
Benjamin S. Bloom, 1913--99	86	(4)
Torsten Husen
Jerome S. Bruner, 1915--	90	(6)
Howard Gardner
Torsten Husen, 1916--	96	(6)
T. Neville Postlethwaite
Lee J. Cronbach, 1916--	102	(3)
Torsten Husen
Donald Thomas Campbell, 1916--96	105	(7)
Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon
Maxine Greene, 1917--	112	(6)
Christine Thompson
R.S. Peters, 1919--	118	(4)
John White
John I. Goodlad, 1920--	122	(6)
Jianping Shen
Paulo Freire, 1921-97	128	(5)
Michael W. Apple
Luis Armando Gandin
Alvaro Moreira Hypolito
Seymour B. Sarason, 1919--	133	(9)
Andrew Hargreaves
Israel Scheffler, 1923--	142	(6)
Harvey Siegel
Jean-Francois Lyotard, 1924--98	148	(6)
Michalinos Zembylas
Lawrence A. Cremin, 1925--90	154	(7)
James D. Anderson
Basil Bernstein F., 1925--2000	161	(9)
Ivor F. Goodson
Michel Foucault, 1926--84	170	(5)
Michael Peters
Margaret Donaldson, 1926--	175	(6)
Martin Hughes
Ivan Illich, 1926--	181	(7)
David A. Gabbard
Dana L. Stuchul
Lawrence Kohlberg, 1927--87	188	(5)
K. Peter Kuchinke
Paul H. Hirst, 1927--	193	(6)
Terence H. McLaughlin
Philip Wesley Jackson, 1928--	199	(4)
Elliot W. Eisner
Jane Roland Martin, 1929--	203	(7)
Susan Laird
Nel Noddings, 1929--	210	(5)
David J. Flinders
Jurgen Habermas, 1929--	215	(9)
Keith Morrison
Carl Bereiter, 1930--	224	(5)
David R. Olson
Pierre Bourdieu, 1930--	229	(5)
Ingolfur Asgeir Johannesson
Thomas S. Popkewitz
Neil Postman, 1931--	234	(7)
Dan Inbar
Theodore R. Sizer, 1932--	241	(6)
Tamar Levin
Elliot Eisner, 1933--	247	(5)
P. Bruce Uhrmacher
John White, 1934--	252	(5)
Eamonn Callan
Lee S. Shulman, 1938--	257	(6)
Pam Grossman
Sam Wineburg
Michael W. Apple, 1942--	263	(9)
Carlos Antonio Torre
Howard Gardner, 1943--	272	(8)
Mindy L. Kornhaber
Henry Giroux, 1943--	280	(5)
Keith Morrison
Linda Darling-Hammond, 1951--	285
Ann Lieberman