John Locke

by Alexander Moseley, 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 Locke is indisputably a major thinker in education. Alexander Moseley's volume offers the most coherent account of Locke's educational thought. This work is divided into:
Intellectual biography
Critical exposition of Locke's work
The reception and influence of Locke's work and The relevance of the work today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826484055
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/15/2008
Series:	Continuum Library of Educational Thought , #6
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Alexander Moseley is the author of several philosophy books including An Introduction to Political Philosophy, An A-Z of Philosophy and Aristotle in this educational series. He has authored two novels and lectured at the University of Evansville, US, before setting up his own educational company which he runs with his wife, Moira.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Foreword

Part I: Intellectual Biography
1. Introduction
2. Educational Experience
3. Somerset
4. Puritanism
5. Dr Samuel Crook
6. Parents
7. Westminster - Busby
8. Oxford - Owen
9. The Scientific and Philosophical Revolution
10. Robert Boyle
11. Rene Descartes
12. Humanism
13. The Renaissance Child
14. Montaigne
15. Comenius
16. Port Royal Schools
17. Ashley Cooper and Locke's Intellectual Break
18. Locke's Later Years

Part II: Critical Assessment of Locke's Educational Theories
19. Introduction
20. Philosophical Overview
21. Innatism
22. Ideas
23. Words
24. Knowledge
25. Criticisms of the Essay Locke's Theory of Education
26. Aristotelian Roots
27. Education's Purpose
28. Faith and Religion
29. Breeding
30. Nature/Nurture Debate
31. Freedom and Will
32. Early Education
33. Middle Education
34. Scholarly Education
35. But Not for the Poor
36. Political Man and his Education
37. Continued Study
38. Summary

Part III: The Reception and Influence of Locke's Work
39. Immediate Response and Impact
40. Philosophical Legacy
41. The Two Bishops' Responses: Berkeley
42. Locke's Legacy in the Philosophy of Education
The Eighteenth Century
The Rousseau Distortion
Kant
Adam Smith
Wollstonecraft
The Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century

Part IV: The Relevance of John Locke Today
43. Introduction
44. On Being Relevant
45. The Political-Educational Model
46. Education's Usefulness
47. Lockean Realism
48. Critique of Schools and Families
49. State Education
50. The 'State as Parent' Critique
51. Free Market Education
52. School Curricula

Bibliography
Index