Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those included are:

* Pierre Bourdieu

* Elliot Eisner

* Hans J. Eysenck

* Michel Focault

* Henry Giroux

* Jurgen Habermas

* Susan Isaacs

* A.S. Neill

* Herbert Read

* Simone Weill.

Together with Fifty Major Thinkers on Education
this book provides a unique history of educational thinking. Each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence and a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.