1st Edition

Ideas of Education Philosophy and politics from Plato to Dewey

Edited By Christopher Brooke, Elizabeth Frazer Copyright 2013
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

There has always been a strong relationship between education and philosophy - especially political philosophy. Renewed concern about the importance and efficacy of political education has revived key questions about the connections between the power to govern, and the power to educate. Although these themes are not always prominent in commentaries, political writings have often been very deeply... Read more

Introduction: Education and Political Power Christopher Brooke and Elizabeth Frazer  1: Socrates, Plato, Eros and Liberal Education Mark L. McPherran  2: Aristotle’s Educational Politics and the Aristotelian Renaissance in the Philosophy of Education Randall Curren  3: Philosophy and Education in Stoicism of the Roman Imperial Era Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils  4: Medieval Theories of Education: Hugh of St. Victor and John of Salisbury Brian D. Fitzgerald  5: Education, Erasmian Humanism and More's Utopia John M. Parrish  6: Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Education Teresa M. Bejan  7: Locke on Education and the Rights of Parents Alex Tuckness  8: Rousseau's Philosophy of Transformative De-naturing Education Patrick Riley  9: Educational Theory and the Social Vision of the Scottish Enlightenment Ryan Patrick Hanley  10: Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on Education Elizabeth Frazer  11: Bildung and the Reform of German Higher Education Alexander Schmidt  12: Education and Utopia: Robert Owen and Charles Fourier David Leopold  13: Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition in Education Ruth Watts  14: J. S. Mill on Education Alan Ryan  15: Feminist Thinking on Education in Victorian England Laura Schwartz  16: Idealism and Education Andrew Vincent  17: 'Affection in Education': Edward Carpenter, John Addington Symonds and the Politics of Greek Love Josephine Crawley Quinn and Christopher Brooke  18: John Dewey: Saviour of American Education or Worse than Hitler? Richard Pring

Biography

Christopher Brooke is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.

Elizabeth Frazer is Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics at New College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, UK.