Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. This includes reviews on the works of Pierre Bourdieu, Elliot Eisner, Hans J Eysenck, Michel Foucault, Henry Giroux and Susan Isaacs, to name but a few. Together with Fifty Major Thinkers on Education this book provides a unique history of educational thinking. Each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence and a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.