Robert Owen on Education Hardback
by Robert Owen
Edited by H. Silver
Part of the Cambridge Texts and Studies in the History of Education series
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Robert Owen was one of the most extraordinary Englishmen who ever lived and a great man.
In a way his history is the history of the establishment of modern industrial Britain, reflected in the mind and activities of a very intelligent, capable and responsible industrialist, alive to the best social thought of his time.
The organisation of industrial labour, factory legislation, education, trade unionism, co-operation, rationalism: he was passionately and ably engaged in all of them.
His community at New Lanark was the nearest thing to an industrial heaven in the Britain of dark satanic mills; he tried to found a rational co-operative community in the USA.
In everything he contemplated, he saw education as a key.
This selection of his writings on education illustrates his rationalist concept of the formation of character and its implications for education and society; also his growing utopian concern with social reorganisation; and third, his impact on social movements.
Silver's introduction shows Owen's relationship to particular educational traditions and activities and his long-term influence on attitudes to education.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/1969
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- ISBN:9780521073530
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/1969
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- ISBN:9780521073530