John Henry Newman

Professor James Arthur author Guy Nicholls author Professor Richard Bailey editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:15th Nov '07

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John Henry Newman is indisputably a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Newman's educational thought. It is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Newman's work; and, The reception, influence and relevance of Newman's work. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, and Kant.John Henry Newman is indisputably a major thinker in education. James Arthur and Guy Nicholls' volume offers the most coherent account of Newman's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Newman's work; and, The reception, influence and relevance of Newman's 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.

"'... the authors show that the interplay between issues of authority and freedom were as characteristic of nineteenth-century debate as they are in the context of our own day.' V. Alan McClelland, Emeritus Professor of Educational Studies, University of Hull"

ISBN: 9780826484079

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 510g

256 pages