Plato and education (Students library of education)

By Robin Barrow

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.
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
The reception and influence of Plato's work and The relevance of the work today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826484085
• ISBN13: 9780826484086
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"