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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.John Henry Newman is indisputably a major thinker in education. James Arthur and Guy Nicholls'' volume offers the most coherent account of Newman''s educational thought. This work is divided into:Intellectual biography Critical exposition of Newman''s work and The reception, influence and relevance of Newman''s work today.>
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James Arthur is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies and Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, UK.Father Guy Nicholls is a graduate of King's College, Cambridge, UK, and Parish Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Birmingham, UK.Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany, where he is Manager of Sport and Health at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.
