 | |
List Price: $65.33 | | Publisher: Prentice Hall
Salesrank: 511148
|
| Our Price: $35.50 |
| Used Price: $34.96 |
|
| Media: Paperback |
|
Editorial Review:
This foundations text offers both concepts and key writings from the major educational innovators throughout history, beginning with the ancient civilizations and proceeding to the current 21st century. The text is organized chronologically and takes a biographical approach, giving readers a wealth of primary source material by philosophers, classical to postmodern, whose ideas have helped shape educational practice. Each chapter has a brief biography of the educator’s life, a summary of the key contributions of the educator, introductory “questions to guide your reading”, and follow-up discussion questions.
The History and Philosophy of Education: Voices of Educational Pioneers Reviews:
Breadth over Depth 
2008-06-30 - This is an incredibly expansive history of education, stretching from the middle ages to present. It is set up based on the important people of each time period instead of concepts or movements. There is a helpful review at the end of each chapter with each educator's name and their contribution. I enjoyed this boook as an overview and have researched more deeply those educators in whom I was most interested. Easy read, interesting, skims the surface for a nice reference of educators throughout time.
Interested in the History of Education, Then here you go! 
2007-05-02 - Since there are not many textbooks regarding the history and philosophy of education, it must have been a difficult task to compile such extensive research. The author outlines the important contributors to today's education from Confucious to Montessori and provides samples of their work for review and analysis. If any reader is interested in understanding why education is the way it is today, this is a great study book to purchase. Included in this book are timelines of history as well as important court cases and events which greatly impacted American education. For any professor having a difficult time finding a textbook which gives the information in a very logical, and visual way, this is a perfect choice. One of its best features is the discussion questions to guide reading. Overall, this book does a fantastic job of laying out the entirety of our educational system.
Look No Further
2007-04-27 - If you are looking for a text that covers the History and Philosophy of Education that is easy to read with primary source selections from key figures in education, than this is it. (Plato, Cicero, Augustine, Hildegard, Luther, Locke, Wollstonecraft, Hakadah, Franklin, Jefferson, Beecher, Washington, DuBois, Dewey, Counts, Montessori, Piaget...to name a few.) Murphy also makes a point to include educational pioneers that are women. It is very informative and obvious the author has done her homework.
The only improvement I would suggest would be to add color and more pictures. Other than that, it is very concise and works well in any History and Philosophy of Education course.
Informative
2007-04-27 - This book offers a lot of insight on past educators and their philosophy of education. There are some educators that I would a) have never heard of but they contributed a lot to education and b) there are educators in this book that I never thought of to be educators until I read their contributions. As a student of the author, I feel that she did a great job of assembling the book with many different educators' point of view to assist her students in creating their own philosophy of education.
If you are interested in reading about different philosophers and educators and are interested in becoming an educator yourself, I definitely recommend it. It is very informative and gives great insight and thought.
Job well done Dr. Murphy!
