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Book Reviews see all articles in this section BookNotes BookNotes is your monthly guide to good, informative reading. Each month BookNotes will feature the Editor's choice of titles. This month our Editor has selected a range of books focusing on educational thinkers and theorists of our century. Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey (Fifty Key Thinkers) Publisher: Routledge Author: Joy Palmer, Liora Bresler, David Edward Cooper Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization's greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Among those included are: Confucius * Plato * St. Augustine * Eamus John Wesley * Immanuel Kant * Mary Wollstonecaft * Nietzche * John Dewey * Rudolf Steiner   Environmental Education in the 21st Century Publisher: Routledge Author: Joy A.Palmer In this important book, Joy Palmer addresses the challenges to the development of programs in environmental education; the history of environmental activism and of its role in shaping the political climate; and the prospects that face environmental education as it seeks to shape the future of our relationship to the environment. Theory of Environmental Education promises to reposition environmental education at the core of educational development for the 21st century.   The Rise of the Modern Educational System Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author: Edited by Detlef Müller, Fritz Ringer, Brian Simon The Rise of the Modern Educational System is a pioneering socio-historical analysis of change and development in secondary education in three European countries (England, France, Germany) in the mid to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although clear historical and institutional differences between the three countries are apparent, overall patterns of development emerge as remarkably similar.   Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom Publisher: Routledge Author: Bell Hooks Bell Hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, shares her philosophy of the classroom, offering ideas about teaching that fundamentally rethink democratic participation. By combining personal narrative, essay, critical theory, dialogue and a fantasy interview with herself, Hooks declares that education today is failing students by refusing to acknowledge their particular histories. Teaching to Transgress is full of hope and excitement for the possibility of education to liberate.     To buy these books, click on the book covers above or visit our comprehensive online bookstore at: www.galtbooks.com www.galtbooks.com has been created with a mission to assist not-for-profit organizations within your community. Proceeds from every sale are donated to the organization of your choice. Click here to learn more. You may wish to submit a book review of your own for inclusion in The Galt Global Review. Please send your review to editor@galtglobalreview.com for consideration. We look forward to receiving your feedback and suggestions. © Copyright 2005. Galt Western Personnel Ltd. Unless otherwise specified, you may reprint this article, quote from it, use it in research or projects, duplicate it or distribute it. Credit of authorship and source MUST be given to galtglobalreview.com. Ownership of Copyright remains with Galt Western Personnel Ltd. Return to Top      Business News / Business Roundup - Australia / Canada / Europe / United States / Careers / Classified / Information Technology / New Technology / Education News / World Facts / Book Reviews / Archives/Research