Dewey.- Dewey¿s Attack on Dualisms.- Dewey¿s Criticism of Traditional Individualism.- An Acceptable Individualism.- Reconciliation or Rejection.- Endnotes.- II Individualism in Recent Western Educational Theory.- V: Analytic Philosophy of Education.- Peters on the Concept of Education.- Peters on Autonomy.- Scheffler on the Concept of Teaching.- The Concept of Indoctrination.- Conclusion.- Endnotes.- VI: The Popular Radicals.- Carl Rogers.- Ivan Illich.- John Holt.- The Difference between Conservative and Radical Individualists.- A Possible Exception.- Endnotes.- VII: Piaget and the Study of Child Development.- Piaget¿s Developmental Theory.- Piaget¿s Individualism.- Criticism of Piaget.- Concluding Comments.- Endnotes.- VIII: Limits to Individualism.- Ontological Individualism in a General Perspective.- Limits to Autonomy.- Limits to Social Determinism.- Epistemologies as Social Programmes.- Ontological Individualism in an Educational Context.- Normative Individualism in a General Perspective.- The Drift towards Egoism.- Normative Individualism in an Educational Perspective.- Endnotes.- IX: The Alternatives and their Limits.- The Collectivist Alternative.- A Feminist Alternative.- In Praise of Ideological Inconsistency.- Endnotes.