The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers

Abstract

The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers analyses the most important, influential, innovative and interesting thinkers on education of all time. Each of the chronologically arranged entries explores why a particular thinker is significant for those who study education and explores the social, historical and political contexts in which the thinker worked. Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chronological list of entries; Alphabetical list of entries; List of contributors; Preface; Entries; 1 Confucius (551-479 BCE); 2 The Buddha c. 5th Century BCE); 3 Socrates (469-399 BCE); 4 Plato (427-347 BCE); 5 Aristotle (384-322 BCE); 6 Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE-29 CE); 7 Saint Augustine (354-430); 8 Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111); 9 Ibn Tufayl (c. 1106-85); 10 Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536); 11 Michel de Montaigne (1533-92); 12 Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670); 13 John Locke (1632-1704); 14 John Wesley (1703-91). 15 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)16 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804); 17 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827); 18 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); 19 Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814); 20 Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835); 21 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831); 22 Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841); 23 Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel (1782-1852); 24 N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872); 25 John Henry Newman (1801-90); 26 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82); 27 John Stuart Mill (1806-73); 28 Charles Darwin (1809-82); 29 John Ruskin (1819-1900); 30 Herbert Spencer (1820-1903); 31 Matthew Arnold (1822-88). 32 Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95)33 Louisa May Alcott (1832-88); 34 Samuel Butler (1835-1902); 35 Eugenio María de Hostos (1839-1903); 36 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900); 37 Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941); 38 Alfred Binet (1857-1911); 39 Émile Durkheim (1858-1917); 40 Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964); 41 John Dewey (1859-1952); 42 Jane Addams (1860-1935); 43 Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925); 44 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941); 45 Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947); 46 Robert Morant (1863-1920); 47 Max Weber (1864-1920); 48 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950). 49 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)50 M.K. Gandhi (1869-1948); 51 Maria Montessori (1870-1952); 52 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970); 53 E.L. Thorndike (1874-1949); 54 Martin Buber (1878-1965); 55 Janusz Korczak (1878/9-1942); 56 Richard Henry (R.H.) Tawney (1880-1962); 57 Melanie Klein (1882-1960); 58 Cyril Lodovic Burt (1883-1971); 59 José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955); 60 A.S. Neill (1883-1973); 61 Susan Isaacs (1885-1948); 62 Kurt Hahn (1886-1974); 63 Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929); 64 Harold Rugg (1886-1960); 65 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951); 66 Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). 67 Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)68 Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968); 69 Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896-1934); 70 Jean Piaget (1896-1980); 71 Michael Oakeshott (1901-92); 72 Carl Rogers (1902-87); 73 Ralph Winifred Tyler (1902-94); 74 Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-90); 75 Harry Broudy (1905-98); 76 Hannah Arendt (1906-75); 77 Simone Weil (1909-43); 78 Joseph J. Schwab (1910-88); 79 Clark Kerr (1911-2003); 80 Benjamin S. Bloom (1913-99); 81 Jerome S. Bruner (1915- ); 82 Michael Young (1915-2001); 83 Torsten Husén (1916-2009); 84 Lee J. Cronbach (1916-2001); 85 Donald Thomas Campbell (1916-96).