A History of the Western Educational Experience, Third Edition

This comprehensive volume identifies and analyzes the significant ideas and institutions that shaped the Western educational heritage. The author examines how worldwide events have impacted education in Europe, North America, and beyond. The third edition incorporates fresh material about the ancient world, European exploration and colonization of North America and India, as well as updated chapters on education in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Russia. This edition has an expanded treatment of Carl Jung, a new section on Margaret Naumburg and her Walden School, and enhanced analysis of many other theorists. It concludes with broadened coverage of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century American education, including many educators new to the third edition. Each chapter contains a new feature: Reflection, Discussion, and Research. From Plato and Aristotle to John Dewey, leading educators raised perennial concepts about education and truth, meaning, and value that remain relevant today. In the progression from antiquity to the present, some issues are marked by change and others by continuity–all of which are important to consider, discuss, and research further. Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly. Titles by Gerald L. Gutek also available from Waveland Press: American Education in a Global Society: International and Comparative Perspectives, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577664048) and An Historical Introduction to American Education, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577667520).