A History of Western Philosophy of Education is the first comprehensive overview of philosophy of education from ancient times to the present day, covering 2,500 years of history.

Table of Contents

• Figures
• Series Introduction
• General Editors’ Acknowledgements
• Timeline
• Part 1: A History of Western Philosophy of Education in Antiquity
• Introduction: A Story of Educational Philosophy in Antiquity
• The Sophistic Movement and the Frenzy of a New Education
• Plato: Philosophy As Education
• Xenophon the Educator
• Isocrates: The Founding and Tradition of Liberal Education
• Educating for Living Life at Its Best: Aristotelian Thought and the Ideal Polis
• Ancient Schools and the Challenge of Cynicism
• Roman Educational Philosophy: The Legacy of Cicero
• Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius: Education and the Philosophical Art of Living Annie Larivée
• St. Augustine’s Pedagogy as the New Creation
• Part 2: A History of Western Philosophy of Education: In The Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Introduction: Historical Vision and Philosophy of Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• The Monastic Turn: 400–1150
• Religion, Reason, and Educational Thought in the Twelfth Century
• Jewish and Muslim Voices
• Thomas Aquinas and Education
• Humanism and Education
• Women Writers and Education
• Religious Reformers and Education in the Sixteenth Century
• Michel de Montaigne and the Bridge to Enlightenment and Modernity
• Part 3: A History of Western Philosophy of Education: In the Age of Enlightenment
• Introduction: Enlightenment and Education
• Locke on Education
• Rousseau’s Philosophy of Education
• Educational Legacies of the French Enlightenment
• German Educational Thought: Religion, Rationalism, Philanthropinism, and Bildung
• Philosophies of Education “in Action”: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Johann Friedrich Herbart, and Friedrich Fröbel
• Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Taylor Mill on Women, Education, and Gender Socialization
• Teachings of Uncommon Schooling: American Transcendentalism and Education in Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller
• Part 4: A History of Western Philosophy of Education: In The Modern Era
• Introduction: Struggle, Resistance, and Opportunity—A Historical and Philosophical Lens on Education in the Modern Era
• John Dewey’s Philosophy of Democratic Education
• Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Education
• Ethical Relationality in Education: Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Nel Noddings
• Psychoanalysis with Education
• The Philosophical Milieu in Nineteenth-Century American Education: From Idealism to Pragmatism
• Philosophy of Education and Early Childhood: Invitations and Provocations of Childhood from Maria Montessori and Reggio Emilia
• Philosophies of Race, Justice, and Education: Traditions of Embodied Knowledge
• Critical Theory and Education
• Education and the Linguistic Turn
• Part 5: A History of Western Philosophy of Education: In The Contemporary Landscape
• Introduction
• Education, Pluralism, and the Dynamics of Difference
• Feminism within Philosophy of Education
• Analytic Philosophy of Education
• A Philosophy of Hope: Paulo Freire and Critical Pedagogy
• The Changing Landscapes of Anarchism and Education
• Philosophy for Children and Children’s Philosophical Thinking
• “Teachers, Leave Them Kids Alone!”: Derrida, Agamben, and the Late Modern Crisis of Pedagogical Narrative
• Decolonization, Indigenous Peoples, and Philosophy of Education
• Liberal Education and Its Existential Meaning