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Eminent Educators Studies in Intellectual Influence
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Maurice R. Berube
ISBN: 0-313-31060-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31060-7
192 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/2000
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £76.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Eminent Educators is the first book of its kind. Focusing on the four intellectual giants of the 20th century—John Dewey, Howard Gardner, Carol Gilligan, and John Ogbu—the book provides biographical information and analysis of their intellectual contributions. Each of these individuals caused a major paradigm shift in American education with their intellectual influence, and each, in their unique contribution indelibly shaped education for the better.

Each educator represents one aspect of that most American of educational philosophies: Progressive Education. Progressive educators sought to educate the whole child: intellectually, morally, socially, and aesthetically. In Eminent Educators, Dewey represents two aspects of Progressive Education, intellectually and aesthetically; Gardner redefined intelligence; Gilligan probed the moral development of girls/women; and Ogbu remapped the education of African Americans, thus representing the social change aspect of Progressive Education.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    In Search of Leadership
    John Dewey: American Genius
    John Dewey and the Abstract Expressionists
    Howard Gardner and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences
    Carol Gilligan and Moral Development
    John Ogbu and the Theory of Caste
    An Intellectual Legacy
About the Author: MAURICE R. BERUBE is Eminent Scholar of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and author of many books, all published by Greenwood/Praeger.
LCC Class: 370
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