Robert Owen

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Robert Owen is indisputably a major thinker in education. Bob Davis and Frank O'Hagan's volume offers the most coherent account of Owen's educational thought. This work is divided into: 1. Intellectual Biography 2. Critical Exposition of Owen's Work 3. The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today

Robert A. Davis is Professor of Religious and Cultural Education at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he is Head of School of Education. Frank O'Hagan is Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany, where he is Manager of Sport and Health at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.

'Robert Owen provides a penetrating and compelling account of the influence and relevance of Owen today, an 'ambivalent legacy' as Davis and O'Hagan argue, balanced between a new world utopianism and Scottish Enlightenment rationality. This is an excellent, thought-provoking and exciting introduction to the education thought of Robert Owen, one of the most remarkable reformers of the industrial age and one of its most impassioned educational thinkers.' Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA