Plato

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8408-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Continuum Library of Educational Thought

Robin Barrow's volume offers the most coherent account of Plato's educational thought.

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.
Plato is indisputably a major thinker in education. Robin Barrow's volume offers the most coherent account of Plato's educational thought. This work is divided into:

Intellectual biography
Critical exposition of Plato's work
The reception and influence of Plato's work and The relevance of the work today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barrow, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Intellectual biography

Critical exposition of the thinker’s work

The reception and influence of the work

The relevance of the work today

Bibliography (including references to electronic resources)Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Barrow read Greats at Oxford University and obtained his PhD from the University of London. He was Reader in Philosophy of Education at the University of Leicester, before moving to Simon Fraser University in Canada as Professor of Philosophy of Education in 1982. From 1992-2002 he was Dean of Education. He is the author of twenty-four books and a hundred or so papers in the fields of classics, philosophy, and education. His works include the celebrated Giving Teaching Back to Teachers, The Philosophy of Schooling, and An Introduction to Philosophy of Education, which, recently in its 4th and completely revised edition, has now been continuously in print for more than thirty years. His most recent works include books on Plato's educational theory, Academic Ethics, and Moral Philosophy. He has been Vice-Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Canada, and President of the North West Philosophy of Education Society of North America. He is listed in the Canadian Who's Who and in 1996 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.