John Dewey : a philosopher of education for our time?

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John Dewey : a philosopher of education for our time?

Richard Pring

(Continuum library of educational thought, 4)

Continuum International Pub., c2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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John Dewey is indisputably a major thinker in education.Richard Pring's volume offers the most coherent account of Dewey's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Dewey's work; and Philosophical underpinnings and a philosopher of education for our time.This is a major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.

Table of Contents

  • Intellectual biography
  • Critical exposition of the thinker's work
  • The reception and influence of the work
  • The relevance of the work today
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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