Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers

Editor: Palmer Cooper, Joy A.
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Routledge

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ISBN: 978-1-13-882614-4
Category: Social Sciences - Education
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The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers analyses the most important, influential, innovative and interesting thinkers on education of all time. Each of the chronologically arranged entries explores why a particular thinker is significant for those who study education and explores the social, historical and political contexts in which the thinker worked.

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Table of Contents

  • Chronological list of entries
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • Entries
  • 1 Confucius (551-479 BCE)
  • 2 The Buddha c. 5th Century BCE)
  • 3 Socrates (469-399 BCE)
  • 4 Plato (427-347 BCE)
  • 5 Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
  • 6 Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE-29 CE)
  • 7 Saint Augustine (354-430)
  • 8 Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)
  • 9 Ibn Tufayl (c. 1106-85)
  • 10 Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
  • 11 Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)
  • 12 Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670)
  • 13 John Locke (1632-1704)
  • 14 John Wesley (1703-91)
  • 15 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)
  • 16 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
  • 17 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827)
  • 18 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)
  • 19 Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)
  • 20 Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
  • 21 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
  • 22 Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841)
  • 23 Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel (1782-1852)
  • 24 N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872)
  • 25 John Henry Newman (1801-90)
  • 26 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
  • 27 John Stuart Mill (1806-73)
  • 28 Charles Darwin (1809-82)
  • 29 John Ruskin (1819-1900)
  • 30 Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
  • 31 Matthew Arnold (1822-88)
  • 32 Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95)
  • 33 Louisa May Alcott (1832-88)
  • 34 Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
  • 35 Eugenio María de Hostos (1839-1903)
  • 36 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
  • 37 Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941)
  • 38 Alfred Binet (1857-1911)
  • 39 Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)
  • 40 Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964)
  • 41 John Dewey (1859-1952)
  • 42 Jane Addams (1860-1935)
  • 43 Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)
  • 44 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
  • 45 Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
  • 46 Robert Morant (1863-1920)
  • 47 Max Weber (1864-1920)
  • 48 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950)
  • 49 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)
  • 50 M.K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
  • 51 Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
  • 52 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
  • 53 E.L. Thorndike (1874-1949)
  • 54 Martin Buber (1878-1965)
  • 55 Janusz Korczak (1878/9-1942)
  • 56 Richard Henry (R.H.) Tawney (1880-1962)
  • 57 Melanie Klein (1882-1960)
  • 58 Cyril Lodovic Burt (1883-1971)
  • 59 José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
  • 60 A.S. Neill (1883-1973)
  • 61 Susan Isaacs (1885-1948)
  • 62 Kurt Hahn (1886-1974)
  • 63 Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)
  • 64 Harold Rugg (1886-1960)
  • 65 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
  • 66 Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
  • 67 Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
  • 68 Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968)
  • 69 Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896-1934)
  • 70 Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
  • 71 Michael Oakeshott (1901-92)
  • 72 Carl Rogers (1902-87)
  • 73 Ralph Winifred Tyler (1902-94)
  • 74 Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-90)
  • 75 Harry Broudy (1905-98)
  • 76 Hannah Arendt (1906-75)
  • 77 Simone Weil (1909-43)
  • 78 Joseph J. Schwab (1910-88)
  • 79 Clark Kerr (1911-2003)
  • 80 Benjamin S. Bloom (1913-99)
  • 81 Jerome S. Bruner (1915-)
  • 82 Michael Young (1915-2001)
  • 83 Torsten Husén (1916-2009)
  • 84 Lee J. Cronbach (1916-2001)
  • 85 Donald Thomas Campbell (1916-96)
  • 86 Maxine Greene (1917-2014)
  • 87 R.S. Peters (1919-2011)
  • 88 Seymour B. Sarason (1919-2010)
  • 89 John I. Goodlad (1920-2014)
  • 90 Paulo Freire (1921-97)
  • 91 Julius Nyerere (1922-99)
  • 92 Israel Scheffler (1923-2014)
  • 93 John Holt (1923-85)
  • 94 Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98)
  • 95 Lawrence A. Cremin (1925-90)
  • 96 Basil Bernstein (1925-2000)
  • 97 Michel Foucault (1926-84)
  • 98 Margaret Donaldson (1926-)
  • 99 Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
  • 100 Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-87)
  • 101 Paul H. Hirst (1927-)
  • 102 Philip Wesley Jackson (1928-2015)
  • 103 Jane Roland Martin (1929-)
  • 104 Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-)
  • 105 Nel Noddings (1929-)
  • 106 Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
  • 107 Carl Bereiter (1930-)
  • 108 Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
  • 109 Derek Curtis Bok (1930-)
  • 110 Neil Postman (1931-2003)
  • 111 Theodore R. Sizer (1932-2009)
  • 112 Elliot Eisner (1933-2014)
  • 113 Edward de Bono (1933-)
  • 114 Amartya Kumar Sen (1933-)
  • 115 John White (1934-)
  • 116 Eleanor Duckworth (1935-)
  • 117 David R. Olson (1935-)
  • 118 Lee S. Shulman (1938-)
  • 119 Michael Grahame Moore (1938-)
  • 120 James A. Banks (1941-)
  • 121 Michael W. Apple (1942-)
  • 122 Kieran Egan (1942-)
  • 123 Howard Gardner (1943-)
  • 124 Henry Giroux (1943-)
  • 125 Ivor Goodson (1943-)
  • 126 Gloria Ladson-Billings (1947-)
  • 127 Martha Nussbaum (1947-)
  • 128 Linda Darling-Hammond (1951-)