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Bejan, Teresa M. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
This paper considers Thomas Hobbes's educational thought both in its historical context and in the context of his political philosophy as a whole. It begins with Hobbes's diagnosis of the English Civil War as the product of the miseducation of the commonwealth and shows that education was a central and consistent concern of his political theory…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, War, Political Attitudes, Educational Philosophy
McManus, Michael – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2006
Classroom battles are real and not a metaphor. Warfare is a historical and present fact of human life. Life really is a battle and conflict inevitable; injuries to the psyche are just as real as those to the body. Schools cannot step outside society. It is not Foucault but Thomas Hobbes who offers the most perceptive insight into human behaviour…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Global Approach, War, Foreign Countries
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Parry, Geraint – Paedagogica Historica, 1998
Focuses on Thomas Hobbes, an English political philosopher who argued that the solution to civil disorders lay in a sovereign authority backed with force. Argues that education should be seen at the center of Hobbes's project of rescuing society from the disorders threatening civilization throughout 17th-century Europe. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries