John Holt, the American educator, was passionate about the need for alternatives to traditional institutional schooling, seeing schools as often hindering children from learning …
Paulo Freire is one of the most influential thinkers in education. This text is a thoughtful and thorough introduction to Freire’s work, situating this in the context of his life, …
Bertrand Russell’s History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as ‘generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America’. This honourable mention lay partly in his …
What does it mean to say that someone is an educated person? How do we know what's worth including in a school curriculum? Is a good moral education about developing good habits, …
Plato was the first and most formidable thinker to recognise that education is a fiercely contested concept, and to point out what great social and personal issues are at stake in …
What role should government have in education? This question has exercised philosophers since Plato and economists since Adam Smith. It is also a question that is as relevant …
It may be surprising that the thought of a medieval theologian still informs many areas of intellectual debate, but there continues to be lively interest in the work of Thomas …
Jerome Bruner is the vanguard of “the cognitive revolution” in psychology and the predominant spokesman for the role of culture and education in the making of the modern mind. In …
Rudolf Steiner is one of the most controversially judged educational reformers of the twentieth century. Although he received little recognition within his field, his educational …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, enlightenment philosopher and founder of ‘natural education’, is one of the most influential philosophers of education in the western world. In order to …
