John Holt

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.<br/>John Holt is indisputably a major thinker in education. Roland Meighan's volume offers the most coherent account of Holt's educational thought. This work is divided into: <br/>Intellectual biography <br/>Critical exposition of Holt's work<br/>The reception and influence of Holt's work <br/>and <br/>The relevance of the work today.