G H Bantock: 3 books
Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 2
The Minds and the Masses, 1760-1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This volume completes G H Bantock’s comprehensive study of educational thought, and its relationship to the broad development of European culture, from the time of the Renaissance to the present day. During the period under consideration, the new freedom from dogma and hierarchy allowed for the...
Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 1 (RLE Edu H)
Nature and Artifice, 1350-1765
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book examines key theorists in depth in order to give some insight into cultural change as reflected in their curricular recommendations and in the interplay they reveal between the two fundamental educational concepts of ‘artifice’ and ‘nature’. The essays on the various theorists –...
The Parochialism of the Present
Contemporary issues in education
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In this controversial and challenging book, first published in 1981, the author calls for a restoration of the humanistic literary and historical balance in our educational thinking. He argues that the philosophy of education, seeking to emulate the precisions of science, concerns itself more with...