St Thomas Aquinas (Continuum Library of Educational Thought)
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: January 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780826484000
Subjects: Philosophy of education; Reference works; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Reference; Education; Education / Teaching; 1225?-1274; Aquinas, Saint,; Philosophy; Thomas,
Description: "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. St Thomas Aquinas is indisputably a major thinker in education. Vivian Boland's volume offers the most coherent account of Aquinas's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography Critical exposition of Aquinas's work The reception and influence of Aquinas's work and The relevance of the work today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.