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, and, the reception and influence of Plato's work and the relevance of the work today.This is 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.
| ISBN: | 9780826484086 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2007 |
| Author: | Robin Barrow |
| Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Continuum Library of Educational Thought |
| Genres: |
Philosophy and theory of education Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Reference works |