Plato (Continuum Library of Educational Thought): v. 9

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.
Plato is indisputably a major thinker in education. Robin Barrow's volume offers the most coherent account of Plato's educational thought. This work is divided into:

Intellectual biography
Critical exposition of Plato's work
The reception and influence of Plato's work and The relevance of the work today.

Robin Barrow is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada, where he was Dean of Education 1992-2002. He has been Vice-Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Canada, and President of the North West Philosophy of Education Society of North America. He is listed in the Canadian Who's Who and in 1996 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Robin Barrow is Professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University BC, Canada.