Beschreibung:
Brian W. Dotts is an Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia. He is author of The Political Education of Democratus (2015), and co-editor and contributor to his second book, The Elusive Thomas Jefferson (2017).
This book offers a comprehensive look at the philosophy and history of education, going beyond traditional educational foundations books.
Part I. Selected Philosophers: 1. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; 2. John Locke; 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 4. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels; 5. John Dewey; 6. Paulo Freire; 7. Mary Wollstonecraft, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Jane Addams; Part II. History of American Education: 8. Colonial America; 9. Revolutionary era; 10. National/Antebellum era; 11. Post-Civil War era; 12. Progressive era; 13. Post World War II era; 14. 1980s and beyond; 15. The politics of privatization.