John Locke
Dr Alexander Moseley author Professor Richard Bailey editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:15th Nov '07
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John Locke is a major thinker in education. This title offers an account of Locke's educational thought. It is divided into: intellectual biography, critical exposition of Locke's work, and the reception and influence of Locke's work and the relevance of the work.John Locke is indisputably a major thinker in education. Alexander Moseley's volume offers the most coherent account of Locke's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography, critical exposition of Locke's work, and the reception and influence of Locke's work and the relevance of the work today.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.
"'It is a major strength of Mosley's book [...] that he so carefully and thoroughly sets Locke's educational writings in their context. Above all Mosley's book draws out the many connections between Locke's educational writings and his other texts. It is the detailed and scholarly drawings of connections that distinguishes this book...' Richard Smith, Professor of Education, University of Durham; Editor of Ethics in Education; and Associate Editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of Education."
ISBN: 9780826484055
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 510g
248 pages