Professor Richard Bailey: 25 books

Book cover of Leo Tolstoy
by Daniel Moulin, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His experiences...
Book cover of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
by Jurgen Oelkers, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

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 fully understand Rousseau's impact as a true educational thinker, Jurgen Oelkers argues that we must take into account...
Book cover of Plato
by Robin Barrow, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

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 education. He articulated a compelling argument for a liberal arts education as something peculiarly befitting free and...
Book cover of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Susan Laird, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises....
Book cover of John Holt
by Dr Roland Meighan, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

John Holt, the American educator, was passionate about the need for alternatives to traditional institutional schooling, seeing schools as often hindering children from learning rather than helping them; he became an important proponent of homeschooling or 'unschooling', was a pioneer in youth rights...
Book cover of Pierre Bourdieu
by Dr Michael James Grenfell, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century. He made his name in seminal texts such as The Inheritors and Reproduction in which he analysed academic discourse and showed how differences in cultural...
Book cover of Paulo Freire
by Daniel Schugurensky, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

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, intellectual journey and the reception of his thinking around the world. Daniel Schugurensky's text offers a coherent...
Book cover of St Augustine
by Ryan N. S. Topping, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

After setting Augustine's thought firmly within the context of his life and times, Ryan Topping examines in turn the causes of education (the purposes, pedagogy, curriculum, and limits of learning) as Augustine understood them. Augustine's towering influence over Medieval and Renaissance theorists...
Book cover of John Locke
by Dr Alexander Moseley, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

John Locke is one of the great minds in educational history. Drawing on his perceptive observations of families and children he saw the importance of adapting learning to the child's dispositions. Critical of schools, he is the fountainhead of home tutoring, child-centred learning, and the importance...
Book cover of Aristotle
by Dr Alexander Moseley, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

Aristotle is often underrated in educational circles but the impact of his philosophy and his actions are evident in the schools and universities around us today. Aristotle developed the first proper university that had different departments and vast collections of texts and artefacts. His philosophy...
Book cover of St Thomas Aquinas
by Vivian Boland OP, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

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 Aquinas. He considers the most radical questions for our thinking about education: what is a human being? what does it mean...
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