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For archives, links, and other resources about Froebel, access the International Froebel Society website. For the philosophy, history, and projects related to Froebel, access the Froebel Foundation USA website. For a biography of Dewey, access the Center for Dewey Studies page at the Southern Illinois University website. For Jane Addams’s life and philosophy, access the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website. For a chronology and images of Jane Addams and her papers, access the Jane Addams Paper Project website. For information on Maria Montessori, consult the International Montessori Index, Montessori Online, and the American Montessori Association websites. For a biography and bibliography of Piaget, access the Jean Piaget Society website. For a biography, resources, and videos about Freire, access the Freire Project website. For an interpretation of Herbert Spencer’s influence on economics, society, and education in late nineteenth-century America, access “The Richest Man in the World” at the WGBH American Experience website.
Publications Brown, Victoria Bissell. The Education of Jane Addams. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. A biography of Jane Addams that explores the origin and sources of her concepts of social reform, education, women’s rights, and world peace. Cochran, Molly, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Dewey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Contains essays by scholars on Dewey’s life, work, and philosophy. Damrosch, Leo. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Damrosch’s highly acclaimed biography provides a definitive account of the French philosopher’s life and works. Darder, Antonia. Freire and Education. New York and London: Routledge, 2014. Argues that Freire’s educational ideas are especially relevant to today’s teachers and their students. Dewey, John. Democracy and Education, introduction by Gerald L. Gutek. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2005. An edition of Dewey’s important book on philosophy of education, published originally in 1916, with an introductory essay that places the book in its historical and educational contexts. Dewey, John. How We Think, introduction by Gerald L. Gutek. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2005. An edition of Dewey’s important work on thinking as inquiry, published originally in 1910, with an introductory essay that places the book in its historical and educational contexts. Francis, Mark. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Provides an interpretation of Spencer’s relevance to contemporary society. Garrison, Jim; Larry Hickman, and Ikeda Daisaku. Living as Learning: John Dewey in the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: Ikeda
Center, 2014. Examines Dewey’s continuing relevance to contemporary global society. Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Continuum, 2000. Freire establishes the educational and ideological rationale for his liberation pedagogy. Gutek, Gerald L. Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education: A Biographical Introduction. Columbus, OH: Pearson, 2011. Placing each educator in historical and cultural context, Gutek examines the educational ideas of Plato, Quintilian, Aquinas, Calvin, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Spencer, Montessori, Addams, Dewey, Du Bois, Gandhi, and Mao. Gutek, Gerald L. The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation: Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori’s The Montessori Method. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. Provides an introductory biography of Maria Montessori and an analysis of her educational method. Johnston, James S. Inquiry and Education: John Dewey and the Quest for Democracy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Examines Dewey’s epistemology in relation to education. Knight, Louise W. Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Provides an engaging narrative of Jane Addams’s intellectual journal to become an international social, educational, and political theorist and activist. Lilley, Irene M. Friedrich Froebel: A Selection from His Writings. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2010. This reissuing of Lilley’s book provides an excellent introduction and selections to Froebel’s educational philosophy and method. Martin, Jay. The Education of John Dewey. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. A thorough discussion of John Dewey’s life and education, with emphasis on how Dewey’s emotional life influenced his philosophy. Monroe, Will S. Comenius: And the Beginning of Educational Reform. London: Forgotten Books, 2012. A reissuing of Monroe’s classic work on Comenius. Piaget, Jean. The Child’s Conception of the World: A 20th-Century Classic of Child Psychology. Translated by Joan and Andrew Tomlinson. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. Piaget’s analysis of how children develop their reasoning powers. Povell, Phyllis. Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch. New York: University Press of America, 2009. Povell’s insightful narrative provides the history of Montessori education in the United States and analyzes the leadership styles of Montessori and Rambush. Rossatto, Cesar Augusto. Engaging Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Possibility: From Blind to Transformative Optimism. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. A teacher-educator provides a cross-cultural analysis of Freire’s theory in light of contemporary trends and issues such as globalization.
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