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20th-century educational theorists

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George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995)
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921–1997)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French phenomenological philosopher
Emmanuel Levinas
Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
A. S. Neill
Scottish educator and theorist (1883-1973)
Michael Oakeshott
British philosopher (1901-1990)
Vasyl Oleksandrovych Sukhomlynsky
Ukrainian educationalist (1918–1970)
Samuel Alexander
Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)
Georges Canguilhem
French philosopher (1904-1995)
Moshé Feldenkrais
Israeli engineer and creator of the Feldenkrais Method (1904-1984)
Eugen Fink
German philosopher (1905-1975)
Chaïm Perelman
Belgian philosopher of law (1912-1984)
Khrystyna Alchevska
Ukrainian teacher and pedagogue
Heikki Savolainen
Finnish physician and artistic gymnast (1907–1997)
Halyna Kuzmenko
Ukrainian anarchist (1897–1978)
Lorenzo Milani
Italian Catholic priest and educationist (1923-1967)
Loris Malaguzzi
Italian educationist (1920–1994)
Paul Boghossian
American philosopher and academic
Nina Afanasyeva
Soviet and Russian Kildin Sámi teacher, linguist, and politician (*1939)
Ghulam Rasul
Olympic field hockey player (1931–1991)
Bärbel Inhelder
Swiss psychologist (1913-1997)
Enriqueta Compte y Riqué
Spanish teacher and educationist (1866-1949)
Caleb Gattegno
Egyptian mathematician and educator
Toru Kumon
Japanese mathematics educator (1914-1995)
Ștefan Voitec
Romanian politician (1900-1984)
René Zazzo
French psychologist & scholar (1910–1995)
Raziuddin Siddiqui
Pakistani physicist (1908-1998)
Pilar Benejam Arguimbau
Spanish geographer and pedagogue
Dolores de Cortázar
Spanish writer, journalist, education activist
R. B. Braithwaite
English philosopher and ethicist (1900–1990)
Jean Lave
American anthropologist
Richard Stanley Peters
British philosopher (1919–2011)
Ambrose Alli
Medical professor
Maria Berushko
Brazilian school teacher (1959–1986)
Hans Aebli
educationist (1923-1990)
Lawrence Stenhouse
British academic (1926–1982)
Alla Gryaznova
Soviet and Russian economist
Delfim Santos
Portuguese philosopher (1907-1966)
Mehr Abdul Haq
Pakistani writer and academic
Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
Venezuelan composer (1905-1971)
Armonía Somers
Uruguayan writer
Georgy Shchedrovitsky
Soviet philosopher (1929-1994)
Seth Irunsewe Kale
Nigerian bishop
Antoni Kenar
Polish sculptor (1906-1959)
Rashid Bey Ismayilov
Azerbaijani historian and journalist
Mahmud Hussain
Pakistani academic and politician
Fatbardha Gega
Albanian psychologist and educational theorist
Stanisław Horno-Popławski
Polish sculptor (1902-1997)
Minnie Abercrombie
British psychologist
Carlos Augusto León
Venezuelan poet, essayist, and politician (1914-1997)
Geoffrey Warnock
Philosopher and academic administrator
Lawrence A. Cremin
American historian (1925-1990)
Mariam Atlas
Russian economist
Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa
Venezuelan politician (1902-1994)
Benita Gil
Spanish teacher and syndicalist organizer