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Title

Philosophy of education : an encyclopedia / editor, J.J. Chambliss.

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chambliss, J. J. (Joseph James), 1929-

Description

xvi, 720 pages; 26 cm.

Summary

This first-of-its-kind Encyclopedia charts the influence of philosophic ideas that have had the greatest influence on education from ancient Greece to the present. It covers such classical thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Hypatia, Locke, and Rousseau, as well as such recent figures as Montessori, Heidegger, Du Bois, and Dewey. It illuminates time-honored ideas and concepts such as idealism, practical wisdom, scholasticism, tragedy, and truth, as well as such modern construct as critical theory, existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism, and post-colonialism. The Encyclopedia also examines contributions from politics, religion, poetry, rhetoric, the social sciences, and other fields. The coverage consists of 228 articles by 184 contributors, who survey the full spectrum of the philosophy of education. While the emphasis is on theory, many articles show how theory works in practice. For students and general readers, the Encyclopedia demonstrates the influence of philosophic points of view on the practice of education. For scholars and other researchers, it is a useful tool for exploring the relationship of the philosophy of education to philosophy, the philosophy of science, the social sciences, and the history of education. Classroom teachers and administrators in elementary and secondary schools will find helpful the Encyclopedia's discussions of the interplay between classroom practices and educational theory. Internal cross-references and a comprehensive index are included, and each article is followed by a bibliography.

Series Statement

Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1671

Uniform Title

Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1671.

Subject

• Education > Philosophy > Encyclopedias
• Education > Philosophy
• Pedagogiek
• Filosofische aspecten
• Education > Philosophy > Dictionaries

Genre/Form

• encyclopedias.
• Reference works
• Encyclopedias
• Encyclopedias.
• Reference works.
• Encyclopédies.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- The encyclopedia -- Index.

ISBN

• 081531177X
• 9780815311775

LCCN

96018393

OCLC

• ocm34590994
• 34590994
• SCSB-2115702

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library