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Description
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.
John Holt is indisputably a major thinker in education. Roland Meighan's volume offers the most coherent account of Holt's educational thought. This work is divided into:
Intellectual biography
Critical exposition of Holt's work
The reception and influence of Holt's work
and
The relevance of the work today.
Table of Contents
Critical exposition of the thinker's work
The reception and influence of the work
The relevance of the work today
Bibliography (including references to electronic resources) Index
Product details
Published | Jan 15 2008 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 176 |
ISBN | 9780826484048 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Series | Continuum Library of Educational Thought |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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"A superb account of the educational writings of John Holt; a 'wonderful exposition' of his work, to quote from Patrick Farenga's Foreword. It is comprehensive and thorough, without 'penguinizing' (see page 130!), and it is as lucid, accessible and compelling as Holt's work itself... This is a powerful book, beautifully written, and we owe Roland Meighan a debt of gratitude for delivering John Holt to us in little more thhat 150 pages." Reviewed by Peter Holt in The Journal of Personalised Education, Spring/Summer 2008
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"Meighan has done us the great service -- though it will have been a labour of love -- of distilling the contents of all of Holt's ten books into this mort readable volume of his own...Roland Meighan's eloquent tribute...ought to be essential reading for everyone who has the welfare of our children at heart." Reviewed by Michael Foot in The Journal of Personalised Education, Spring/Summer 2008

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