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Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 2: The Minds and the Masses, 1760-1980 book cover

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Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 2 The Minds and the Masses, 1760-1980

By G. H. Bantock Copyright 1984
4 Pages
by Routledge

4 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume completes G H Bantock’s comprehensive study of educational thought, and its relationship to the broad development of European culture, from the time of the Renaissance to the present day. During the period under consideration, the new freedom from dogma and hierarchy allowed for the emergence of a large number of models of education intended to accommodate the autonomous personality... Read more

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part Three The Moderns: ‘Processes’ 1. ‘A Hermit Who Mixes Little with Other Men’: The Legacy of Rousseau. 2. ‘The Buisness of Life’: Joseph Priestley 3. ‘UNNECESSARY AND PRECIPITATE INNOVATION’: Vicesimus Knox 4. ‘The Laws of Nature’: Pestalozzi and Froebel 5. ‘A Clerisy’: Coleridge 6. ‘Diversified Innocent Amusement’: Robert Owen 7. ‘The Circle of Knowledge’: J F Herbart 8. ‘The Greatest Happiness Principle’: the Utilitarians 9. ‘The Best Self’: Matthew Arnold 10. ‘The Muck of Ages’: Karl Marx 11. ‘Radical Aristocrat’: Nietzsche 12. ‘The Non-Interference of the School’: Tolstoy 13. ‘Schooling in Decline’?: the Twentieth Century. Conclusion. Short Biographies of the Main Theorists. Select Bibliography. Index.

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