Philosophy of Education

First Published in 1996.  This first of its kind Encyclopaedia charts the influence of philosophic ideas that have had the greatest influence on education from Ancient Greece to the present. It covers classical thinkers as Plato Augustine Hypatia Locke and Rousseau as well as recent figures such as Montessori Heldegger Du Bois and Dewey. It illuminates time-hounded ideas and concepts such as idealism practical wisdom scholasticism tragedy and truth as well as modern constructs as critical theory existentialism phenomenology Marxism and post-Colonialism. The coverage consists of 228 articles by 184 contributors who survey the full spectrum of the philosophy of education.