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Biografisk notat
Daniel Moulin is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society in the University of Navarra, Spain. He was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Kilns C.S. Lewis Study Centre, Oxford, UK, 2010-2011, and Chapel Director at Somerville College, Oxford, UK, 2011-2013.Dan Moulin has written a book that helps us see Tolstoy as a significant educational philosopher in spite of the glare of his fame as perhaps the greatest of novelists. Moulin brings us into Tolstoy's world, a world of polemics, epics and fictions. He carefully and critically engages the reader in Tolstoy's sometimes arrogant approach to educational theorists, and his always humble approach to the wisdom and spirit of children.
- Julian Stern, Dean of the Faculty of Education & Theology, York St John University, UK,
How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His experiences there incited his life-long inquiry into the meaning and purpose of religion, literature, art and life itself.
In this text, Daniel Moulin tells the story of the course of Tolstoy’s educational thought, and how it relates to Tolstoy's fiction and other writings. It begins with his experience of being a child and adolescent, incorporates his travels in Europe, the experimental school, his literature, and his views on art, philosophy, and spirituality. Throughout, the relevance and impact of Tolstoy’s thinking on education are translated into applicable theory for today’s education students.
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Author's Preface
Introduction
Part I: An Intellectual Biography of Leo Tolstoy
1. Early experiences and Influences
2. Tolstoy the Educator
3. The Prophet of Yasnaya Polyana
Part II: A Critical Exposition of Tolstoy's Educational Thought
4. The Pedagogical Laboratory
5. The Results of the Yasnaya Polyana Experiment
6. The Devil of False Education
7. The Spiritual Nature of a Genuine Education
Part III: The Legacy of an Overlooked Educator
8. The Reception and Influence of Tolstoy's Educational Thought
9. Tolstoy's Relevance for Today's Educators
10. Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
This series provides accounts of the work of seminal thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions, exploring the contribution and significance of the thinker’s central ideas and arguments and their relevance to educational thought today. With each book written by a leading philosopher in education, these volumes are definitive companions for students of education and the philosophy of education.
The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.