A History of Western Philosophy of Education
A History of Western Philosophy of Education
Editors: Laverty, Megan J. and Hansen, David T.
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-35-007466-8
Category: Philosophy
Image Count:
91
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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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