Robert Owen
By: Robert Davis, Frank O'Hagan.
Contributors: O'Hagan, Frank.
Series: Continuum library of educational thought -- 25
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group; Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781847061041
Subjects: Owen, Robert, -- 1771-1858; Educators -- Scotland -- Biography; Education -- Great Britain -- History; Education -- Great Britain -- Philosophy; Social reformers -- Scotland -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "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: 1. Intellectual Biography 2. Critical Exposition of Owen's Work 3. The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Robert Owen : industrialist and reformer; title: Key principles of Owen's educational thought and practice; title: Education, work, and community; title: The education of citizens in the just society; title: The ambivalent legacy of Robert Owen : utopianism and rationality; title: Education, world heritage, and social change : New Lanark as an educational experience.