John Holt

by Roland Meighan, Richard Bailey (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826484048
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/15/2008
Series:	Continuum Library of Educational Thought
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Roland Meighan held positions as Special Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK, and as Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Foreword

Part I: Intellectual Biography
1. Becoming a Radical

Part II: Critical Exposition of John Holt's Work
2. Overview
3. How Children Fail
4. How Children Learn
5. The Underachieving School
6. What Do I Do Monday?
7. Freedom and Beyond
8. Escape from Childhood
9. Instead of Education
10. Never Too Late
11. Teach Your Own
12. Learning All the Time
13. Growing Without Schooling

Part III: The Reception and Influence of John Holt's Work
14. The Home-Based Education Movement

Part IV: The Relevance of Holt's Work Today
15. Personalized Learning

Bibliography
Index