"'Read this book not only to learn about John Holt's work, but about what you can do in your own life to personalize and make education meaningful not just to yourself, but for others as well.' Patrick Farenga worked with John Holt Associates and Growing Without Schooling magazine for over 24 years."
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, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
Advisory Board: Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Peter Gronn (University of Glasgow, UK), Kathy Hall (University of Ireland, Ireland), Stephen Heyneman (Vanderbilt University, USA), Yung-Shi Lin (Taipei Municipal University of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan), Gary McCulloch, Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Jurgen Oelkers (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Richard Pring (University of Oxford, UK), Harvey Siegel (University of Miami, USA), Richard Smith (University of Durham, UK), Zhou Zuoyu (Beijing Normal University, People's Republic of China).