John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education

John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century EducationJohn Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in John Ruskin and Nineteenth Century Education examine Ruskins influence on educating girls, libraries, creativity, grammar schools, social mobility, the environment and the future of the planet.

Broad ranging

In a series of iProbes - a portmanteau of iPhone and probe - Leistner reveals the face of war through the extensions of man

and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered

peasant revolts

Las Babas del Diablo (1959)

The novel also throws light on the turbulent religious and political troubles in Latin America

improving their ability to serve as effective advocates on behalf of their institutions

bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories

Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left

postcolonial studies and social psychology

Assessing the impact of the war from 1950 to the early twenty-first century

director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961)