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Robert Owen
Robert A. Davis
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Description for Robert Owen
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Bailey, Professor Richard. Series: Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 396.
This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen's radical new visions for learning and teaching, adult and vocational pedagogy and social transformation are receiving fresh and global attention, Robert Davis and Frank O'Hagan place Owen's thought right at the heart of the Enlightenment advocacy of popular, democratic mass education. Tracing both the ancestry and the legacy of Owen's reforming spirit, they also offer a critical appraisal of the relevance of his ideas for the development of education at all levels ... Read more
This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen's radical new visions for learning and teaching, adult and vocational pedagogy and social transformation are receiving fresh and global attention, Robert Davis and Frank O'Hagan place Owen's thought right at the heart of the Enlightenment advocacy of popular, democratic mass education. Tracing both the ancestry and the legacy of Owen's reforming spirit, they also offer a critical appraisal of the relevance of his ideas for the development of education at all levels ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472518934
SKU
V9781472518934
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About Robert A. Davis
Robert A. Davis is Professor of Religious and Cultural Education and Head of School of Education in the University of Glasgow, UK. He has taught and written widely on the history of education and the cultural understanding of childhood. Frank O'Hagan recently retired as Lecturer in History in the School of Education in the University of Glasgow, ... Read more
Reviews for Robert Owen
Robert Owen provides a penetrating and compelling account of the influence and relevance of Owen today, an 'ambivalent legacy' as Davis and O'Hagan argue, balanced between a new world utopianism and Scottish Enlightenment rationality. This is an excellent, thought-provoking and exciting introduction to the education thought of Robert Owen, one of the most remarkable reformers of the industrial age and ... Read more