Continuum Library of Educational Thought Plato (Hardcover)

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.