Educational Theory in British Children's Literary Classics

Foreword by the Series Editors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Learning Down the Rabbit Hole: Lewis Carroll’s Alice Novels as Case Studies of Human Development

Chapter 2: Beatrix Potter as a Champion of Progressive Education

Chapter 3: The Neverland Academy: Formal Schooling vs. Natural Learning in Peter Pan

Chapter 4: The Wind in the Willows and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”

Chapter 5: A Bear of Very Little Brain: Winnie-the-Pooh and Growth Mindset

Chapter 6: Always Winter, But Never Christmas: Narnia and High Stakes Testing

Chapter 7: How Bilbo Learns: Environmental Inquiry and Reflective Practice in The Hobbit

Chapter 8: How Hogwarts Teaches: Identity, Personality, and Instruction

Epilogue: Lessons in Literature: What Readers See Through the Lens of Education

Bibliography

Index

About the Author