Robert Owen

Bob Davis is Professor of Religious and Cultural Education, University of Glasgow, UK. Frank O'Hagan is Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.

• Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Intellectual Biography; 1. Robert Owen: Industrialist and Reformer; Part II Critical Exposition of Owen's Work; 2. Key Principles of Owen's Educational Thought and Practice; 3. Education, Work and Community; 4. The Education of Citizens in the Just Society; Part III The Influence and Relevance of Owen's Work Today; 5. The Ambivalent Legacy of Robert Owen: Utopianism and Rationality; 6. Education, World Heritage and Social Change: New Lanark as an Educational Experience; Bibliography; Index.

'Robert Owen provides a penetrating and compelling account of the influence and relevance of Owen today, an ‘ambivalent legacy' as Davis and O'Hagan argue, balanced between a new world utopianism and Scottish Enlightenment rationality. This is an excellent, thought-provoking and exciting introduction to the education thought of Robert Owen, one of the most remarkable reformers of the industrial age and one of its most impassioned educational thinkers.'   Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA