Educational philosophy in the French enlightenment
Subtitle: from nature to second nature
By: Natasha Gill
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780754662891; 9781409406204
Subjects: Philosophy; History; Enlightenment; Education; Humanistic Education
Description: Natasha Gill offers the first comprehensive analysis of French educational thought before Rousseau. She situates Emile in the context of a pedagogical debate that had been under way for a century before its publication, reveals the importance of key transitional figures such as Etienne-Gabriel Morelly, and shows how French theorists came to see education as a vehicle through which individual liberation, social harmony and political unity could be achieved.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p.[279]-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Locke's Educational Theory in Relation to his Philosophical and Political Thought; title: The Natural External : Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education; title: Locke : Father of Social Engineering or Champion of Liberty in Education?; title: Sources of French Educational Thought and the Legacy of the Jesuits; title: Childhood and Education in the Works of Claude Fleury, Charles Rollin, and Jean-Pierre de Crousaz; title: "The Limits of Reform" and the Concept of Utility in Fleury, Rollin, Crousaz, and Mme de Lambert; title: Educational Theory at Mid-century; title: Morelly and Individual Education : Essai sur l'esprit humain; title: Morelly and Social Education : Essai sur le coeur humain; title: Morelly and the Politicization of Education; title: The Scandal Over Helvetius's De l'Esprit and the Origins of the Helvetius-Rousseau Controversy; title: Helvetius's De l'Esprit : The Argument for Full Equality; title: Rousseau's Emile, Books I; title: -III : Individual Education; title: Emile, Books IV; title: -V, and Emile et Sophie, ou les solitaires : Social and Moral Education; title: The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Educational Reformers of the 1760s; title: The Influence of Educational-Philosophical Concepts on the Reform Plans of the 1760s; title: Disciples and Critics : The Impact of French Enlightenment Educational Thought; title: Appendix 1. Rousseau's Appropriation of Morelly; title: Appendix 2. Helvetius's Critique of Rousseau's Educational Theory; title: Appendix 3. Education in the Encyclopedie.