Romanticism and Education: Love, Heroism and Imagination in Pedagogy

by David Halpin

In this original book, David Halpin argues that an understanding of the Romantic roots of progressive education is a necessary condition for restoring to critical consciousness some important, but currently neglected, basic ideas about teaching and learning - ideas about the importance of imaginative experience and its promotion; ideas about the high status that should be conferred on childhood; ideas about the importance of love and friendship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826484727
• ISBN13: 9780826484727
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"