Philosophy of education : the essential texts
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Philosophy of education : the essential texts
Routledge, c2009
- : hbk.
- : pbk
Available at / 11 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Philosophy of education is a study both of the aims of education and the most appropriate means of achieving those aims. This volume contains substantial selections from those works widely regarded as central to the development of the field. These are the "essential texts" that lay the foundation for further study. The text is historically organized, moving from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle), through the medieval period (Augustine), to modern perspectives (Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft), and twentieth-century thinkers (Whitehead, Dewey). Each selection is followed by an extended interpretative essay in which a noted authority of our time highlights essential points from the readings and places them in a wider context.
Exhibiting both breadth and depth, this text is ideal as a reader for courses in philosophy of education, foundations of education, and the history of ideas.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Plato
Meno (complete)
Republic
Afterword, Robert S. Brumbaugh
2. Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
Afterword, Randall Curren
3. Augustine
On the Teacher
Afterword, Philip L. Quinn
4. John Locke
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Afterword, Peter Gay
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile
Afterword, William Boyd
6. Immanuel Kant
Lectures on Pedagogy
Afterword, Robert B. Louden
7. Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Afterword, Jane Roland Martin
8. John Stuart Mill
Inaugural Address at St. Andrews (complete)
Afterword, Elizabeth Anderson
9. Alfred North Whitehead
The Aims of Education
Afterword, Nathaniel M. Lawrence
10. John Dewey
Democracy and Education
Afterword, Sidney Hook
by "Nielsen BookData"