Robert Owen by Robert A. Davis, Frank O'Hagan, Hardcover

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Overview

Robert Owen is indisputably a major thinker in education. Bob Davis and Frank O'Hagan's volume offers the most coherent account of Owen's educational thought. This work is divided into:
1. Intellectual Biography
2. Critical Exposition of Owen's Work
3. The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847061041
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/01/2010
Series:	Continuum Library of Educational Thought , #25
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Robert A. Davis is Professor of Religious and Cultural Education at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he is Head of School of Education.

Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Intellectual Biography
1. Robert Owen: Industrialist and Reformer
Part II Critical Exposition of Owen's Work
2. Key Principles of Owen's Educational Thought and Practice
3. Education, Work and Community
4. The Education of Citizens in the Just Society
Part III The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today
5. The Ambivalent Legacy of Robert Owen: Utopianism and Rationality
6. Education, World Heritage and Social Change: New Lanark as an Educational Experience
Bibliography
Index

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