Robert Owen
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Robert Owen
(Continuum library of educational thought, v. 25)
Continuum International Pub., c2010
- : hardcover
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This title offers the most coherent account of Owen's educational thought. Robert Owen is indisputably a major thinker in education. Bob Davis and Frank O'Hagan's volume offers the most coherent account of Owen's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual Biography; Critical Exposition of Owen's Work; and, The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today. This title comes from 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
- Series Editor's Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Intellectual Biography
- 1. Robert Owen: Industrialist and Reformer
- Part II Critical Exposition of Owen's Work
- 2. Key Principles of Owen's Educational Thought and Practice
- 3. Education, Work and Community
- 4. The Education of Citizens in the Just Society
- Part III The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today
- 5. The Ambivalent Legacy of Robert Owen: Utopianism and Rationality
- 6. Education, World Heritage and Social Change: New Lanark as an Educational Experience
- Bibliography
- Index.
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