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John Locke is one of the great minds in educational history. Drawing on his perceptive observations of families and children he saw the importance of adapting learning to the child's dispositions. Critical of schools, he is the fountainhead of home tutoring, child-centred learning, and the importance of enjoyable learning. But for Locke learning was not about facts: a good education produced gentlemen who could in turn adapt themselves to commerce and politics. Locke's philosophy helped provide rigour to the scientific revolution, the impetus for the expansion of schools for the poor (which should be profitable) and child psychology.
Alexander Mosely sets Locke's educational writings in their context with a sensitive reading of what Locke understood by 'education' and highlights the relevance of the study of Locke's work to our understanding of education today.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Part I: Intellectual Biography
1. Introduction
2. Educational Experience
3. Somerset
4. Puritanism
5. Dr Samuel Crook
6. Parents
7. Westminster - Busby
8. Oxford - Owen
9. The Scientific and Philosophical Revolution
10. Robert Boyle
11. Rene Descartes
12. Humanism
13. The Renaissance Child
14. Montaigne
15. Comenius
16. Port Royal Schools
17. Ashley Cooper and Locke's Intellectual Break
18. Locke's Later Years
Part II: Critical Assessment of Locke's Educational Theories
19. Introduction
20. Philosophical Overview
21. Innatism
22. Ideas
23. Words
24. Knowledge
25. Criticisms of the Essay Locke's Theory of Education
26. Aristotelian Roots
27. Education's Purpose
28. Faith and Religion
29. Breeding
30. Nature/Nurture Debate
31. Freedom and Will
32. Early Education
33. Middle Education
34. Scholarly Education
35. But Not for the Poor
36. Political Man and his Education
37. Continued Study
38. Summary
Part III: The Reception and Influence of Locke's Work
39. Immediate Response and Impact
40. Philosophical Legacy
41. The Two Bishops' Responses: Berkeley
42. Locke's Legacy in the Philosophy of Education
The Eighteenth Century
The Rousseau Distortion
Kant
Adam Smith
Wollstonecraft
The Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century
Part IV: The Relevance of John Locke Today
43. Introduction
44. On Being Relevant
45. The Political-Educational Model
46. Education's Usefulness
47. Lockean Realism
48. Critique of Schools and Families
49. State Education
50. The 'State as Parent' Critique
51. Free Market Education
52. School Curricula
Bibliography
Index
