Modern insurance theory and education; a social history of insurance evolution in the United States during the twentieth century,

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Greek political theory : Plato and his predecessors by Barker, Ernest, Sir, 1874-1960

Table of Contents: “…The Greek theory of the state -- The Greek state -- Political thought before the Sophists -- The political theory of the Sophists -- Socrates and the minor Socratics -- Plato and the platonic dialogue -- The earlier dialogues of Plato -- The "Republic" and its theory of justice -- The "Republic" and its theory of education -- The "Republic" and its theory of communism -- Plato and the states of Greece -- The "Politicus" -- The "Laws" and its general theory of the state -- The system of social relations in the "Laws" -- The system of government in the "Laws" -- The "Laws" and its theory of law -- The theory of education in the "Laws" -- Appendix. …”


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Greek political theory : Plato and his predecessors by Barker, Ernest, Sir, 1874-1960

Table of Contents: “…The Greek theory of the state -- The Greek state -- Political thought before the Sophists -- The political theory of the Sophists -- Socrates and the minor Socratics -- Plato and the platonic dialogue -- The earlier dialogues of Plato -- The "Republic" and its theory of justice -- The "Republic" and its theory of education -- The "Republic" and its theory of communism -- Plato and the states of Greece -- The "Politicus" -- The "Laws" and its general theory of the state -- The system of social relations in the "Laws" -- The system of government in the "Laws" -- The "Laws" and its theory of law -- The theory of education in the "Laws" -- Appendix. …”


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Passionate politics : essays, 1968-1986 : feminist theory in action by Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Making common cause: diversity and coalitions -- Lesbian feminism -- Lesbians in revolt -- Dona Catalina De Erauso: women remembered -- Not for lesbians only -- Learning from lesbian separatism -- Election year: gay perspectives -- Lesbian-feminist theory -- Speaking out, reaching out -- Media and education: Reading and writing for a feminist future -- Women's publishing: an interview by Frances Doughty -- Building feminist theory: the story of Quest -- Not by degrees: feminist theory and education -- Feminism, blacks, and education as politics: a conversation with Betty Powell -- Global feminism: Women and world revolution -- An introduction to international feminism -- Developing strategies for the United Nations decade for women -- Prospects for global feminism -- Strategies for organizing against female sexual slavery -- UN world conference in Nairobi: a view from the West -- Bringing the global home -- Reflections on global feminism after Nairobi.…”


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A history of Western education. Volume two, Civilization of Europe sixth to sixteenth century by Bowen, James, 1928-2012

Table of Contents: “…Plato and the study of philosophy : Studies in the Academy ; The early dialogues ; The theory of forms. A theory of education: The Republic : Man and the state ; Education for leadership. …”


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Scenarios of the imaginary : theorizing the French enlightenment by Harari, Josué V.

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The birth of philosophic Christianity : studies in early Christian and medieval thought by Fortin, Ernest L.

Table of Contents: “…The medieval roots of Christian education -- The paradoxes of Aristotle's theory of education in the light of recent controversies -- Gladly to learn and gladly to teach : why Christians invented the university -- Thomas Aquinas and the reform of Christian education -- IV. …”


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The great tradition : classic readings on what it means to be an educated human being

Table of Contents: “…Sertillanges: from The intellectual life -- Albert Jay Nock: from The theory of education in the United States -- Simone Weil: "Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God" -- C.S. …”


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The history of education : educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of Western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood P., 1868-1941

Table of Contents: “…The ancient world: foundation elements of our western civilization Greece- Rome -- Christianity : The old Greek education : Greece and its people ; Early education in Greece -- Later Greek education : The new Greek education -- The education and work of Rome : The Romans and their mission ; The period of home education ; The transition to school education ; The school system as finally established ; Rome's contribution to civilization -- The rise and contribution of Christianity : The rise and victory of Christianity ; Educational and governmental organization of the early church ; What the Middle Ages started with -- The medieval world: the deluge of barbarism; the medieval struggle to preserve and reestablish civilization : New peoples in the empire -- Education during the early Middle Ages : Condition and preservation of learning -- Education during the early Middle Ages : Schools established and instruction provided -- Influences tending toward a revival of learning : Moslem learning from Spain ; The rise of scholastic theology ; Law and medicine as new studies ; Other new influences and movements -- The rise of the universities -- The transition from medieval to modern attitudes: recovery of the ancient learning; the reawakening of scholarship; and the rise of religious and scientific inquiry : The revival of learning -- Educational results of the revival of learning -- The revolt against authority -- Educational results of the protestant revolts : Among Lutherans and Anglicans -- Educational results of the protestant revolts : Among Calvinists and Catholics -- Education results of the protestant revolts : The reformation and American education -- The rise of scientific inquiry -- The new scientific method and the schools :Humanistic realism ; Social realism ; Sense realism ; Realism and the schools -- Theory and practice by the middle of the eighteenth century : Pre-eighteenth-century education theories ; Mid-eighteenth-century-educational conditions -- Modern times: the abolition of privilege; The rise of democracy ; A new theory for education evolved ; The state takes over the school : The eighteenth a transition century : Work of the benevolent despots of continental Europe ; The unsatisfied demand for reform in France ; England and the first democratic nation ; Institution of constitutional government and religious freedom in America ; The French revolution sweeps away ancient abuses -- The beginnings of national education :New conceptions of the education purpose ; The new state theory in France ; The new state theory in America -- A new theory and subject-matter for the elementary school : The new theory stated ; German attempts to work out a new theory ; The work and influence of Pestalozzi ; Redirection of the elementary school -- National organization in Prussia : The beginnings of the national organization ; A state school system at last created -- National organization in France and Italy : National organization in France ; National organization in Italy -- The struggle for national organization in England : The charitable-voluntary beginnings ; The period of philanthropic effort ; The struggle for national education ; The development of a national system -- Awakening an educational consciousness in the United States : Early national attitudes and interests ; Awakening an educational consciousness ; Social, political, and economic influences ; Alignment of interests and propaganda -- The American battle for free state schools : The battle for tax support ; The battle to eliminate the pauper-school idea ; The battle to make the schools entirely free ; The battle to establish school supervision ; The battle to eliminate sectarianism ; The battle to establish the American high school ; The state university crowns the system -- Education becomes a great national tool : Spread of the state-control idea ; New modifying forces ; Effect of these changes on education -- New conceptions of the educational process : The psychological organization of elementary instruction ; New ideas from Herbartian sources ; The kindergarten, play, and manual activities ; The addition of science study ; Social meaning of these changes -- New tendencies and expansions : Political ; Scientific ; Vocational ; Sociological ; The scientific organization of education -- The future.…”


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The political thought of Plato and Aristotle. by Barker, Ernest, Sir, 1874-1960

Table of Contents: “…The pre-socratics, Socrates, the minor socratics -- Proverbial thought and the philosophy of nature -- Proverbial philosophy -- Pythagoreanism -- Pythagoreans in politics -- Heraclitus -- Natural analogies in politicalthought at Athens -- The state and nature and the social contract -- Disturbance of ancient custom -- Anthropology -- The sophists -- Protagoras and Gorgias -- Man the maker -- Meaning of nature in the sphere of morality -- Might is right -- Social contract -- Superiority of a state of nature -- General iconoclasm -- The sophists and encyclopaedists -- Political pamphlets -- Ideal constitutions -- Socrates and his lesser followers -- Know thyself -- Socrates a prophet -- Scientific thinking -- Aristocratic tendency of Socrates' politics -- Socrates a conservative -- And yet a Radical -- Over-intellectualism of Socrates' views -- Xenophon's Cyropaedia -- Cynic cosmopolitanism -- The cyrenaics -- Plato and the platonic dialogue the defence of Socrates -- The life of Plato -- Plato the political reformaer -- The use of the dialogue -- Criticism of common opinion -- Use of analogy -- Dangers of analogy -- The earlier dialogue of Plato -- The apology a defense of resistance -- The Crito an explanation of obedience -- Viture is knowledge, and therefore teachable -- The Meno -- The Protagoras the sophist's view -- Socrates' refutation of Protagoras -- The Euthydemus on political art -- The Gorgias concerning shams -- Sham statesmanship -- The republic, or concerning Justice -- The plan and motives of the republic -- Plan of the republic -- Division of the republic -- The republic and economics -- The republic directed against sophists -- Attack on contemporary politics -- Political ignorance -- Political selfishness -- Connection of sophistic teaching and contemporary politics -- Plato's remedy -- The prima facie theory of justice -- Thrasymachus' definition of justice -- Plato's formal reply -- Glaucon's conception of justice -- Objections to Glaucon's conception -- Plato's methods of answering Glaucon -- Plato's construction of the state and discovery of true justice -- Parallel of man and the state -- Plato's psychology -- Psychological construction of a state -- Appetitive or economic element -- Spirited or military element -- Rational or governing element -- Character of the government -- Three class system -- Criticism of class system -- Advantages of division -- Justice discovered in the state -- Value of Plato's conception of Justice -- Plato's theory of education -- A new education propounded -- Contemporary Greek education -- Plato's use of existing materials -- Psychological basis of his scheme -- Education in its various stages -- Instruments of education -- Education culminates the idea of the good -- The state and its rulers in relation to the idea of the good -- Art as an instrument of education -- Moral reform of art -- The morality of art -- Province of the state in respect of art -- The education of reason -- Relation of the trained ruler to the state -- Communism -- Relation of platonic communism to education -- Communism necessary to the rule of reason -- Communism of property: its scope and character -- Communism of wives -- Plato's dislike of the household -- The emancipation of women -- Plato's scheme of marriage -- Low view of marriage -- Plato's asceticim -- Reactionary spirit of the Republic -- Relation of communism to personality -- Plato destroys the basis of personality -- Organic theory of the state -- Limitations of that theory -- The Republic as an ideal -- Plato and the tyranny of reason -- Plato's view of monarchy, and of the mixed state -- The absolute monarch -- The Republic and absolute monarchy -- The aim of the politicus -- Knowledge the criterion of the statesman -- The statesman and the law -- The monarch as making for harmony -- Monarchy a flexible government -- Plato's classification of states -- Value of the republic as an ideal standard -- Previous attempts at classification -- Platonic classification -- Plato's sketch of changes not historical -- The practical purpose of the sketch -- The successive changes -- Plato's view of democracy -- The law state and the mixed constitution -- New atmosphere of the laws -- The laws and Aristotle's politics -- The laws in relation to the republic -- The state based on will -- Conception of law as the expression of rational will -- Plato's opinion of contemporary constitutions -- Historical sketch of the growth of the state -- Necessity of a mixed constitution -- Mixture of monarchy and democracy -- Foundation of a colony Government of the colony -- Economics structure of the colony -- Aristotle's criticism of the state of the laws -- Defects of the state of the laws -- Education in the laws -- Theory of punishment -- Epilogue to the laws -- Aristotle his life and times: the place of the politics in his system -- The sources of the politics -- Aristotle's relation to his predecessors -- Respect for popular opinion -- Extent of his political information -- The life of Aristotle -- Aristotle's easrly life -- Aristotle in Macedonia -- Aristotle and Athens -- The teleology of Aristotle -- Aristotle's conception of form ii Teleological view of the world -- Conception of nature -- Relation of nature and art -- The end as the cause of development -- The end as giving an organic conception of the state -- Criticism of the teleological method -- The kingdom of ends -- The end as criterion of classification and standard of distribution -- The end as limit -- The mean -- Aristotle's conception of the unity of the state -- Aristotle's conception of unity -- The nature of an assosciation -- Criticism of Plato -- The state as a compound -- Iner unity of the state: justice and friendship.…”


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Reading feminist theory : from modernity to postmodernity

Table of Contents: “…Charlotte Bunch, "Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education" (1979) -- 5. Maria C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. …”


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