Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education

<p><em>Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education</em> looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those included are:<br>* Pierre Bourdieu<br>* Elliot Eisner<br>* Hans J. Eysenck<br>* Michel Focault<br>* Henry Giroux<br>* Jurgen Habermas<br>* Susan Isaacs<br>* A.S. Neill<br>* Herbert Read<br>* Simone Weill.<br>Together with <em>Fifty Major Thinkers on Education<br>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.</em></p>