Plato is a major thinker in education. This title offers an account of Plato's educational thought. It is divided into: intellectual biography, critical exposition of Plato's work, and, the reception and influence of Plato's work and the relevance of the work.

A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft. Advisory Board: Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Peter Gronn (University of Glasgow, UK), Kathy Hall (University of Ireland, Ireland), Stephen Heyneman (Vanderbilt University, USA), Yung-Shi Lin (Taipei Municipal University of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan), Gary McCulloch, Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Jurgen Oelkers (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Richard Pring (University of Oxford, UK), Harvey Siegel (University of Miami, USA), Richard Smith (University of Durham, UK), Zhou Zuoyu (Beijing Normal University, People's Republic of China).