ABSTRACT
The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers comprises 128 essays by leading scholars analysing 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.
Ranging from Confucius and Montessori to Dewey and Edward de Bono, the entries form concise, accessible summaries of the greatest or most influential educational thinkers of past and present times. Each essay includes the following features;
- concise biographical information on the individual,
- an outline of the individual’s key achievements and activities,
- an assessment of their impact and influence,
- a list of their major writings,
- suggested further reading.
Carefully brought together to present a balance of gender and geographical contexts as well as areas of thought and work in the broad field of education, this substantial volume provides a unique history and overview of figures who have shaped education and educational thinking throughout the world. Combining and building upon two internationally renowned volumes, this collection is deliberately broad in scope, crossing centuries, boundaries and disciplines. The Encyclopaedia therefore provides a perfect introduction to the huge range and diversity of educational thought.
Offering an accessible means of understanding the emergence and development of what is currently seen in the classroom, this Encyclopaedia is an invaluable reference guide for all students of education, including undergraduates and post-graduates in education or teacher training and students of related disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry 1|4 pages
Confucius (551–479 bce)
entry 2|4 pages
The Buddha (c. 5th Century bce)
entry 3|5 pages
Socrates (469–399 bce)
entry 4|5 pages
Plato (427–347 bce)
entry 5|5 pages
Aristotle (384–322 bce)
entry 6|4 pages
Jesus of Nazareth (4 bce–29 ce)
entry 7|4 pages
Saint Augustine (354–430)
entry 8|4 pages
Al-Ghazzali (1058–1111)
entry 9|3 pages
Ibn Tufayl (c. 1106–85)
entry 10|5 pages
Desiderius Erasmus (GERRIT GERRITSZOON) (1466–1536)
entry 11|5 pages
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92)
entry 12|4 pages
Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670)
entry 13|4 pages
John Locke (1632–1704)
entry 14|5 pages
John Wesley (1703–91)
entry 15|5 pages
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
entry 16|5 pages
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
entry 17|5 pages
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827)
entry 18|4 pages
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)
entry 19|6 pages
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814)
entry 20|4 pages
Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)
entry 21|5 pages
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
entry 22|5 pages
Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841)
entry 23|5 pages
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel (1782–1852)
entry 24|4 pages
N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872)
entry 25|4 pages
John Henry Newman (1801–90)
entry 26|4 pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
entry 27|4 pages
John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
entry 28|6 pages
Charles Darwin (1809–82)
entry 29|4 pages
John Ruskin (1819–1900)
entry 30|3 pages
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
entry 31|4 pages
Matthew Arnold (1822–88)
entry 32|4 pages
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
entry 33|6 pages
Louisa May Alcott (1832–88)
entry 34|5 pages
Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
entry 35|5 pages
Eugenio MarÍa De Hostos (1839–1903)
entry 36|5 pages
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
entry 37|5 pages
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941)
entry 38|5 pages
Alfred Binet (1857–1911)
entry 39|4 pages
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
entry 40|6 pages
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858–1964)
entry 41|5 pages
John Dewey (1859–1952)
entry 42|5 pages
Jane Addams (1860–1935)
entry 43|5 pages
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925)
entry 44|5 pages
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
entry 45|5 pages
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
entry 46|3 pages
Robert Morant (1863–1920)
entry 47|4 pages
Max Weber (1864–1920)
entry 48|6 pages
ÉMile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950)
entry 49|6 pages
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963)
entry 50|5 pages
M.K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
entry 51|4 pages
Maria Montessori (1870–1952)
entry 52|4 pages
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)
entry 53|5 pages
E.L. Thorndike (1874–1949)
entry 54|4 pages
Martin Buber (1878–1965)
entry 55|5 pages
Janusz Korczak (1878/9–1942)
entry 56|6 pages
Richard Henry (R.H.) Tawney (1880–1962)
entry 57|4 pages
Melanie Klein (1882–1960)
entry 58|5 pages
Cyril Lodovic Burt (1883–1971)
entry 59|5 pages
JosÉ Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
entry 60|5 pages
A.S. Neill (1883–1973)
entry 61|4 pages
Susan Isaacs (1885–1948)
entry 62|4 pages
Kurt Hahn (1886–1974)
entry 63|4 pages
Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929)
entry 64|4 pages
Harold Rugg (1886–1960)
entry 65|6 pages
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
entry 66|4 pages
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
entry 67|4 pages
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937)
entry 68|5 pages
Herbert Edward Read (1893–1968)
entry 69|4 pages
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896–1934)
entry 70|6 pages
Jean Piaget (1896–1980)
entry 71|4 pages
Michael Oakeshott (1901–92)
entry 72|5 pages
Carl Rogers (1902–87)
entry 73|4 pages
Ralph Winifred Tyler (1902–94)
entry 74|5 pages
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904–90)
entry 75|5 pages
Harry Broudy (1905–98)
entry 76|5 pages
Hannah Arendt (1906–75)
entry 77|4 pages
Simone Weil (1909–43)
entry 78|5 pages
Joseph J. Schwab (1910–88)
entry 79|6 pages
Clark Kerr (1911–2003)
entry 80|4 pages
Benjamin S. Bloom (1913–99)
entry 81|6 pages
Jerome S. Bruner (1915–)
entry 82|4 pages
Michael Young (1915–2001)
entry 83|5 pages
Torsten HusÉn (1916–2009)
entry 84|3 pages
Lee J. Cronbach (1916–2001)
entry 85|6 pages
Donald Thomas Campbell (1916–96)
entry 86|5 pages
Maxine Greene (1917–2014)
entry 87|4 pages
R.S. Peters (1919–2011)
entry 88|6 pages
Seymour B. Sarason (1919–2010)
entry 89|5 pages
John I. Goodlad (1920–2014)
entry 90|5 pages
Paulo Freire (1921–97)
entry 91|6 pages
Julius Nyerere (1922–99)
entry 92|6 pages
Israel Scheffler (1923–2014)
entry 93|5 pages
John Holt (1923–85)
entry 94|5 pages
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–98)
entry 95|6 pages
Lawrence A. Cremin (1925–90)
entry 96|7 pages
Basil Bernstein (1925–2000)
entry 97|5 pages
Michel Foucault (1926–84)
entry 98|5 pages
Margaret Donaldson (1926–)
entry 99|6 pages
Ivan Illich (1926–2002)
entry 100|5 pages
Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–87)
entry 101|5 pages
Paul H. Hirst (1927–)
entry 102|4 pages
Philip Wesley Jackson (1928–2015)
entry 103|5 pages
Jane Roland Martin (1929–)
entry 104|5 pages
Alasdair Macintyre (1929–)
entry 105|5 pages
Nel Noddings (1929–)
entry 106|7 pages
JüRgen Habermas (1929–)
entry 107|5 pages
Carl Bereiter (1930–)
entry 108|5 pages
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)
entry 109|4 pages
Derek Curtis Bok (1930–)
entry 110|6 pages
Neil Postman (1931–2003)
entry 111|6 pages
Theodore R. Sizer (1932–2009)
entry 112|5 pages
Elliot Eisner (1933–2014)
entry 113|5 pages
Edward De Bono (1933–)
entry 114|5 pages
Amartya Kumar Sen (1933–)
entry 115|4 pages
John White (1934–)
entry 116|5 pages
Eleanor Duckworth (1935–)
entry 117|5 pages
David R. Olson (1935–)
entry 118|6 pages
Lee S. Shulman (1938–)
entry 119|5 pages
Michael Grahame Moore (1938–)
entry 120|5 pages
James A. Banks (1941–)
entry 121|6 pages
Michael W. Apple (1942–)
entry 122|4 pages
Kieran Egan (1942–)
entry 123|7 pages
Howard Gardner (1943–)
entry 124|6 pages
Henry Giroux (1943–)
entry 125|4 pages
Ivor Goodson (1943–)
entry 126|4 pages
Gloria Ladson-Billings (1947–)
entry 127|5 pages
Martha Nussbaum (1947–)
entry 128|5 pages
Linda Darling-Hammond (1951–)
