Eminent Educators - Studies in Intellectual Influence

Eminent Educators is the first book of its kind. Focusing on the four intellectual giants of the 20th century-John Dewey, Howard Gardner, Carol Gilligan, and John Ogbu-the book provides biographical information and analysis of their intellectual contributions. Each of these individuals caused a major paradigm shift in American education with their intellectual influence, and each, in their unique contribution indelibly shaped education for the better.

Each educator represents one aspect of that most American of educational philosophies: Progressive Education. Progressive educators sought to educate the whole child: intellectually, morally, socially, and aesthetically. In Eminent Educators, Dewey represents two aspects of Progressive Education, intellectually and aesthetically; Gardner redefined intelligence; Gilligan probed the moral development of girls/women; and Ogbu remapped the education of African Americans, thus representing the social change aspect of Progressive Education.

List of contents

Preface
In Search of Leadership
John Dewey: American Genius
John Dewey and the Abstract Expressionists
Howard Gardner and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Carol Gilligan and Moral Development
John Ogbu and the Theory of Caste
An Intellectual Legacy

About the author

MAURICE R. BERUBE is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Old Dominion University. He is the author of American Presidents and Education (1991), Teacher Politics: The Influence of Unions (1988), and Education and Poverty: Effective Schooling in the United States and Cuba (1984), and many more, all published by Greenwood.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice R. Berube, Berube Maurice R.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2000
• EAN: 9780313310607
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31060-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; USA, EDUCATION / General, Education, Biography: general, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Current Events and Issues: Education