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Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. Because of this increase, and awareness of the risks to long term health that childhood obesity presents, the ph …

Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. Because of this increase, and awareness of the risks to long term health that childhood obesity presents, the ph …

What role should government have in education? This question has exercised philosophers since Plato and economists since Adam Smith. It is also a question that is as relevant today, as people around …

John Holt, the American educator, was passionate about the need for alternatives to traditional institutional schooling, seeing schools as often hindering children from learning rather than helping t …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, enlightenment philosopher and founder of ”natural education”, is one of the most influential philosophers of education in the western world. In order to fully understand Rous …

John Henry Newman’s writings and his lifelong search for religious truth continue to influence thought within a range of disciplines, most notably theology, philosophy and education. One of his most …

John Holt, the American educator, was passionate about the need for alternatives to traditional institutional schooling, seeing schools as often hindering children from learning rather than helping t …

What role should government have in education? This question has exercised philosophers since Plato and economists since Adam Smith. It is also a question that is as relevant today, as people around …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, enlightenment philosopher and founder of ”natural education”, is one of the most influential philosophers of education in the western world. In order to fully understand Rous …

How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and A …

After setting Augustine”s thought firmly within the context of his life and times, Ryan Topping examines in turn the causes of education (the purposes, pedagogy, curriculum, and limits of learning) …

Aristotle is often underrated in educational circles but the impact of his philosophy and his actions are evident in the schools and universities around us today. Aristotle developed the first proper …

This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen”s radical new v …

A. S. Neill was probably the most famous school teacher of the twentieth century. His school, Summerhill, founded in 1921, attracted admiration and criticism from around the world, and became an embl …

Maria Montessori”s work and thinking form a unique legacy to current educational thinking and practice. In this text, Marion O”Donnell explores the key themes of her philosophy of education and exp …

What does it mean to say that someone is an educated person? How do we know what’s worth including in a school curriculum? Is a good moral education about developing good habits, or critical thinking …

The book introduces the central issues in teaching Physical Education in the secondary school. It is divided into four parts; the curriculum, improving teaching, improving learning, and the future. T …

Plato was the first and most formidable thinker to recognise that education is a fiercely contested concept, and to point out what great social and personal issues are at stake in education. He artic …

A. S. Neill was probably the most famous school teacher of the twentieth century. His school, Summerhill, founded in 1921, attracted admiration and criticism from around the world, and became an embl …

How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and A …

Bertrand Russell”s History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as ”generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America”. This honourable mention lay partly in his pragmatic theory of mean …

Michel Foucault”s influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines, his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy, history, literary criticism and political theory. Focusin …

The Municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy, are renowned world-wide for the excellence of their provision. This approach provides a unique collaboration between children, parents, t …

The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century. He made his name in seminal texts such as The Inher …

What does it mean to say that someone is an educated person? How do we know what’s worth including in a school curriculum? Is a good moral education about developing good habits, or critical thinking …

Plato was the first and most formidable thinker to recognise that education is a fiercely contested concept, and to point out what great social and personal issues are at stake in education. He artic …

Jean Piaget was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. His influence on developmental psychology, education and epistemology has been enormous. This text undertakes a reconstruction of t …

It may be surprising that the thought of a medieval theologian still informs many areas of intellectual debate, but there continues to be lively interest in the work of Thomas Aquinas. He considers t …

Charlene Tan”s text offers a coherent account of Confucius” educational thought and its implications for the modern world. Arguing that Confucius is more than an ancient master who emphasised tradi …

John Locke is one of the great minds in educational history. Drawing on his perceptive observations of families and children he saw the importance of adapting learning to the child”s dispositions. C …

Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein”s author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independe …

Jean Piaget was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. His influence on developmental psychology, education and epistemology has been enormous. This text undertakes a reconstruction of t …

Charlene Tan”s text offers a coherent account of Confucius” educational thought and its implications for the modern world. Arguing that Confucius is more than an ancient master who emphasised tradi …

The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century. He made his name in seminal texts such as The Inher …

It may be surprising that the thought of a medieval theologian still informs many areas of intellectual debate, but there continues to be lively interest in the work of Thomas Aquinas. He considers t …

After setting Augustine”s thought firmly within the context of his life and times, Ryan Topping examines in turn the causes of education (the purposes, pedagogy, curriculum, and limits of learning) …

Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein”s author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independe …

Rudolf Steiner is one of the most controversially judged educational reformers of the twentieth century. Although he received little recognition within his field, his educational thought has had a su …

This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen”s radical new v …

Paulo Freire is one of the most influential thinkers in education. This text is a thoughtful and thorough introduction to Freire”s work, situating this in the context of his life, intellectual journ …

Maria Montessori”s work and thinking form a unique legacy to current educational thinking and practice. In this text, Marion O”Donnell explores the key themes of her philosophy of education and exp …

Rudolf Steiner is one of the most controversially judged educational reformers of the twentieth century. Although he received little recognition within his field, his educational thought has had a su …

Paulo Freire is one of the most influential thinkers in education. This text is a thoughtful and thorough introduction to Freire”s work, situating this in the context of his life, intellectual journ …

John Locke is one of the great minds in educational history. Drawing on his perceptive observations of families and children he saw the importance of adapting learning to the child”s dispositions. C …

Lev Vygotsky, the great Russian psychologist, had a profound influence on educational thought. His work on the perception of art, cultural-historical theory of the mind and the zone of proximal devel …

Jerome Bruner is the vanguard of “the cognitive revolution” in psychology and the predominant spokesman for the role of culture and education in the making of the modern mind. In this text Olson enco …

Bertrand Russell”s History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as ”generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America”. This honourable mention lay partly in his pragmatic theory of mean …

Aristotle is often underrated in educational circles but the impact of his philosophy and his actions are evident in the schools and universities around us today. Aristotle developed the first proper …

Jerome Bruner is the vanguard of “the cognitive revolution” in psychology and the predominant spokesman for the role of culture and education in the making of the modern mind. In this text Olson enco …

The Municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy, are renowned world-wide for the excellence of their provision. This approach provides a unique collaboration between children, parents, t …

Michel Foucault”s influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines, his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy, history, literary criticism and political theory. Focusin …

The Philosophy of Education: An Introduction encourages the reader to actively engage with the philosophy of education and the carefully selected contributors bring the philosophy of education to lif …

The Philosophy of Education: An Introduction encourages the reader to actively engage with the philosophy of education and the carefully selected contributors bring the philosophy of education to lif …