John Henry Newman is indisputably a major thinker in education. James Arthur and Guy Nicholls' volume offers the most coherent account of Newman's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Newman's work; and, The reception, influence and relevance of Newman's work today.This is a major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West, and Wollstonecraft.

Author Biography

James Arthur is Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He completed his doctorate at Oriel College Oxford, the College Newman was elected a Fellow. Currently he is Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies and Director of Citized - an national organisation in higher education promoting citizenship. Father Guy Nicholls is currently the Parish Priest of the Oratory, where he also has responsibility both for the maintenance of the music in the Oratory Church and the restoration of the Oratorian community's house at Rednal, where Newman is buried.