Title: Pierre Bourdieu
First published: January 30, 2005
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. Pierre Bourdieu is indisputably a major thinker in education. Michael Grenfell's volume offers the most coherent account of Bourdieu's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography Critical exposition of Bourdieu's work The reception and influence of Bourdieu's work and The relevance of the work today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Subjects: Education, Sociologists, Educational sociology, Philosophy, Criticism and interpretation, Biography, Sociologists, biography, Sociology, france, Sociology, history, Civilization, modern, 20th century, Civilization, philosophy, Education, philosophy, General
Places: France
People: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
LC classification: LB880.B6542 G743 2007