num_pages: 272
description: In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of their impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading. Together with Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education , this book provides a unique reference guide for all students of education.
language: English
title: Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey
titlecomplete: Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey (Routledge Key Guides)
characters: Jesus, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Al-Ghazali, John Dewey, Matthew Arnold, Samuel Butler, Rudolf Steiner, Socrates (philosopher), Thomas Henry Huxley, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Henry Newman, Mahatma Gandhi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Anna J. Cooper, Émile Durkheim, Plato, José Ortega y Gasset, Alfred Binet, John Amos Comenius, Eugenio María de Hostos, Edward Thorndike, Rabindranath Tagore, Herbert Spencer, Confucius, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jane Addams, John Wesley, Johann Friedrich Herbart, John Ruskin, Louisa May Alcott, Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle (philosopher), Friedrich Fröbel, Maria Montessori, Robert Laurie Morant, Desiderius Erasmus, Immanuel Kant, Ibn Tufail, John Locke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Augustine of Hippo, John Stuart Mill, Martin Buber, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Darwin, Cyril Burt, Wilhelm von Humboldt
genres: Philosophy, Education, Nonfiction, Reference
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Routledge