Robert Owen
Published on 29. April 2010
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-84706-104-1 (ISBN)
Description
This title offers the most coherent account of Owen's educational thought. Robert Owen is indisputably a major thinker in education. Bob Davis and Frank O'Hagan's volume offers the most coherent account of Owen's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual Biography; Critical Exposition of Owen's Work; and, The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today. This title comes from 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.
Reviews / Votes
'Robert Owen provides a penetrating and compelling account of the influence and relevance of Owen today, an 'ambivalent legacy' as Davis and O'Hagan argue, balanced between a new world utopianism and Scottish Enlightenment rationality. This is an excellent, thought-provoking and exciting introduction to the education thought of Robert Owen, one of the most remarkable reformers of the industrial age and one of its most impassioned educational thinkers.' Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USAMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84706-104-1 (9781847061041)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Robert A. Davis | Frank O'Hagan
Robert Owen
E-Book
10/2014
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€41.99
Available for download
Robert A. Davis | Frank O'Hagan
Robert Owen
E-Book
10/2014
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€48.79
Available for download
Persons
Bob Davis is Professor of Religious and Cultural Education, University of Glasgow, UK. Frank O'Hagan is Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.
Content
Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Intellectual Biography; 1. Robert Owen: Industrialist and Reformer; Part II Critical Exposition of Owen's Work; 2. Key Principles of Owen's Educational Thought and Practice; 3. Education, Work and Community; 4. The Education of Citizens in the Just Society; Part III The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today; 5. The Ambivalent Legacy of Robert Owen: Utopianism and Rationality; 6. Education, World Heritage and Social Change: New Lanark as an Educational Experience; Bibliography; Index.