Liora (University of Illinois, USA) Bresler & David (University of Durham, UK) Cooper 
Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education [PDF ebook] 
From Piaget to the Present

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.