Plato

A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft. Plato is indisputably a major thinker in education. Robin Barrow''s volume offers the most coherent account of Plato''s educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography Critical exposition of Plato''s work The reception and influence of Plato''s work and The relevance of the work today.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Barrow, Barrow Robin
• Assisted by: Richard Bailey (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9780826484086
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-8408-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Continuum Library of Education; Continuum Library of Educational Thought; Continuum Library of Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works