A History of Western Education: The Modern West, Europe & the New World, Vol.3

by James Bowen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312387806
• ISBN13: 9780312387808
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

You must find and read this book

Perhaps the best non-fiction book I've ever read. Scholarly and engaging at the same time, it's more than a history of education-more like a history of Western culture and politics, through the lens of how we raise our children. At the same time, it's also rich with details on education-related ideas and experiments. Truly puts current debates on education in perspective; anyone interested in how children are raised or how society works should read it. Of course, first they have to find it.

THE definitive history of education to date

This three volume history of Western education, from Ancient Greece until about World War II, is far more carefully researched and explained than any alternative I know of. It provides vital background for anyone struggling with problems of education reform today. Anyone who does not know that John Amos Comenius, in 1630, laid out the concept of a school system with grades and classes and textbooks for each class, cannot understand the problems we are having today; but there is far more to this history than just the segment on Comenius. It is incomprehensible that this three volume work is out of print. A friend of mine asserts that the purpose of book publishers is to PREVENT the sale of books. Given this example, I must agree.

Magnificient review of pedagogy and philosophy of education.

The depth of research and the clarity of expression makes this work essential reading to anyone who delivers teaching/learning. The work reviews the technology, philosophy and political climate throughout the western world from 2000 b.c.e. to the present. Other works have attempted to sumarise this topic only to fail to explain the background. Why this book (all three volumes) is out of print is incomprehensible. If the publisher re-reads this s/he will discover a lost treasure.