Robert Owen on Education

di Robert Owen (Autore)

H. Silver (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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.

• Autore: Robert Owen
• Curatore: H. Silver
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Texts and Studies in the History of Education
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 252 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 127 mm
• Peso: 280 gr.
• EAN: 9780521112253

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