埃蒙·凯伦博士(Eamonn Callan,1953——),加拿大籍爱尔兰人,现为美国斯坦福大学教授,是近年来西方社会教育界较有影响的年轻教育哲学家,有“世界一流教育哲学家”之誉,其政治思想倾向于现代自由主义流派。1997年年底英国牛津大学出版社出版了他的专著《培育公民——政治教育与自由民主》(Creating Citizens—Po-litical Education and Liberal Democracy),这是作者当时在加拿大阿尔伯塔大学任教期 Eamonn Callan (1953--), a Canadian Irishman and now a professor at Stanford University in the United States, is a young educational philosopher influential in western social education circles in recent years. He has “world-class educational philosophers ”The reputation of its political thoughts tend to modern liberal genres. His monograph “Creating Citizens-Po-litical Education and Liberal Democracy” was published by the University of Oxford Press in late 1997 at the time when the author was teaching at the University of Alberta in Canada