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John Dewey's Import on Education Reform

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John Dewey's Import on Education Reform

Hopeful discussions about civil society, public schools, and democratic citizenship.

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Created By: Skip Zilla
Latest Activity: May 10

Discussions based on Dewey's own writings and on those about him and his dream.

Laura Gibbs has kindly provided a del.icio.us tag for available online texts of Dewey's works and for secondary sources of information about him.

Skip Zilla suggests that this group rely (at least at its formation) on six secondary titles to guide its discussions:
1) Benson, Lee, Harkavy, Ira, and Puckett, John. (2007). Dewey's Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
2) Welchman, Jennifer. (1995). Dewey's Ethical Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
3) Tanner, Laurel N. (1997). Dewey's Laboratory School: Lessons for Today. New York: Teachers College Press.
4) Shook, John R. (2000). Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
5) Westerbrook, Robert B. (1993). John Dewey and American Democracy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
6) Campbell, James. (1995). Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence. Peru, IL: Open Court Publishing Company.

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Dewey Resources Online
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John Dewey's Democracy and Education has been an education Bible for me ever since I was introduced to his work while I was coordinating the DECal program at UC-Berkeley back in the 80s (DECal is a... Continue

Started by Laura Gibbs. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Jan 7.

Dewey's Dream
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Can we begin by reading Dewey's Dream (see citation above) and then start a series of critical and constructive discussions based on three main objectives stated by its authors in their "Preface": ... Continue

Tagged: democratic+citizenship, unrealized+dream, civil+society, dewey, public+schools

Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Derek Brandow Jan 3.

A decade of work in Chicago makes Dewey famous
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It was not in Ann Arbor that Dewey engaged himself in problems of pedagogy and schools for which he is renowned, but in Chicago from 1894 to 1904. Once again, it was an uber-man and older mentor, t... Continue

Tagged: vision, progressive+dream, leadership, democracy, education+reform

Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Ed Jones Dec. 7, 2007.

Young Dewey the utopian in a late 19th-century era of crusading utopians.

John Dewey was restless as young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. In the spirit of the times, he was perplexed as others were (notably Karl Marx) in the 19th-century by the pr... Continue

Tagged: utopian+fiasco, public+intelligence, participatory+democracy

Started by Skip Zilla Aug. 12, 2007

democracy: in name only?

When in 1888 John Dewey published "The Ethics of Democracy," a long essay aimed at refuting elitist claims that power in the hands of the masses produced disastrous consequences for government and ... Continue

Tagged: education, personal+integrity, democracy, social+benefits, beginnings

Started by Skip Zilla Aug. 5, 2007

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