Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education

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Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education is written by Liora Bresler and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134592582 (ISBN 10) and 9781134592586 (ISBN 13).

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those included are: * Pierre Bourdieu * Elliot Eisner * Hans J. Eysenck * Michel Focault * Henry Giroux * Jurgen Habermas * Susan Isaacs * A.S. Neill * Herbert Read * Simone Weill. Together with Fifty Major Thinkers on Education this book provides a unique history of educational thinking. Each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence and a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.