Liora Bresler & David Cooper 
Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education 
From Piaget to the Present Day

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century’s most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those included are:* Pierre Bourdieu* Elliot Eisner* Hans J. Eysenck* Michel Focault* Henry Giroux* Jurgen Habermas* Susan Isaacs* A.S. Neill* Herbert Read* Simone Weill.Together with Fifty Major Thinkers on Educationthis 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.