Summary of Famous Western Educational Works

Author: Shan Zhonghui
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book selects and discusses 96 classic Western educational works from the time of Plato to the end of the 20th century in the form of content summaries. It greatly benefits us in getting a comprehensive overview of the works of famous Western educators in a short time. This book has been revised and published by our press in May 2004. Faced with the vast ocean of Western academic classics, no one can read them all in a lifetime. The Western Academic Classics Summaries series, edited by authoritative scholars from various disciplines, lays a shortcut for readers to enter the of Western academia. The Western Management Classics Summaries has been selected as supplementary teaching material by the Central Party School and many local Party schools, with over 50,000 copies in circulation. The Western Psychology Classics Summaries and The Western Education Classics Summaries have also been chosen as reference texts for quality education curricula by institutions such as East China Normal University and Hunan Normal University, with over 10,000 copies sold upon their first publication. This book includes nearly 100 influential world educational classics in history, many of which do not have Chinese translations. It features works representing classical educational theory, such as Comenius's The School of Beauty and Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education, as well as works representing modern educational theory, such as Dewey's Democracy and Education, Russell's Education and the Good Life, Gasset's The Mission of the University, Full and others' Learning to Be, and Hahn's Introduction to Lifelong Education.