Fifty modern thinkers on education : from Piaget to the present

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the most significant contributors of modern times to the debate on education.

Among those included are: Pierre Bourdieu Elliot Eisner Hans J.

Eysenck Michel Focault Henry Giroux Jurgen Habermas Susan Isaacs A.S.

Neill Herbert Read Simone Weill. Together with Fifty Major Thinkers on Education 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.