Educational philosophy in the French enlightenment : from nature to second nature / Natasha Gill.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2010], ©2010.

vi, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Locke's Educational Theory in Relation to his Philosophical and Political Thought -- The Natural External : Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education -- Locke : Father of Social Engineering or Champion of Liberty in Education? -- Sources of French Educational Thought and the Legacy of the Jesuits -- Childhood and Education in the Works of Claude Fleury, Charles Rollin, and Jean-Pierre de Crousaz -- "The Limits of Reform" and the Concept of Utility in Fleury, Rollin, Crousaz, and Mme de Lambert -- Educational Theory at Mid-century -- Morelly and Individual Education : Essai sur l'esprit humain -- Morelly and Social Education : Essai sur le coeur humain -- Morelly and the Politicization of Education -- The Scandal Over Helvetius's De l'Esprit and the Origins of the Helvetius-Rousseau Controversy -- Helvetius's De l'Esprit : The Argument for Full Equality -- Rousseau's Emile, Books I -- III : Individual Education -- Emile, Books IV -- V, and Emile et Sophie, ou les solitaires : Social and Moral Education -- The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Educational Reformers of the 1760s -- The Influence of Educational-Philosophical Concepts on the Reform Plans of the 1760s -- Disciples and Critics : The Impact of French Enlightenment Educational Thought -- Appendix 1. Rousseau's Appropriation of Morelly -- Appendix 2. Helvetius's Critique of Rousseau's Educational Theory -- Appendix 3. Education in the Encyclopedie.

Includes bibliographical references ( p.[279]-295) and index.