John Dewey's Democracy and Education
A Centennial Handbook

This book offers expert in-depth insight into this important book and places its relevance in a present educational context.

Leonard J. Waks (Edited by), Andrea R. English (Edited by)

9781107140301, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 May 2017

374 pages, 1 b/w illus.
26 x 18.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.83 kg

John Dewey's Democracy and Education is the touchstone for a great deal of modern educational theory. It covers a wide range of themes and issues relating to education, including teaching, learning, educational environments, subject matter, values, and the nature of work and play. This Handbook is designed to help experts and non-experts to navigate Dewey's text. The authors are specialists in the fields of philosophy and education; their chapters offer readers expert insight into areas of Dewey work that they know well and have returned to time and time again throughout their careers. The Handbook is divided into two parts. Part I features short companion chapters corresponding to each of Dewey's chapters in Democracy and Education. These serve to guide readers through the complex arguments developed in the book. Part II features general articles placing the book into historical, philosophical and practical contexts and highlighting its relevance today.

Foreword David Hansen
Acknowledgments
Note on abbreviations
Introduction Leonard J. Waks and Andrea R. English
Part I. Companion Chapters: Introduction to Part I Leonard J. Waks
1. Learning by doing and communicating Leonard J. Waks
2. Learning and its environments Loren Goldman
3. Giving form and structure to experience A. G. Rud
4. Growth, habits, and plasticity in education Sarah M. Stitzlein
5. Democracy without telos: education for a future uncertain Gonzalo Obelleiro
6. What is the role of the past in education? Andrea R. English
7. 'A mode of associated living': the distinctiveness of Deweyan democracy Kathleen Knight Abowitz
8. A democratic theory of aims Leonard J. Waks
9. What is the purpose of education?: Dewey's challenge to his contemporaries Avi I. Mintz
10. Shaping and sharing democratic aims: reconstructing interest and discipline Terri S. Wilson
11. Experience and thinking: transforming our perspective on learning Andrea R. English
12. The role of thinking in education: why Dewey still raises the bar on educators Jack P. Smith, III and Spencer P. Greenhalgh
13. Method: intelligent engagement with subject matter Doris A. Santoro
14. Subject matter: combining 'learning by doing' with past collective experience Meinert Meyer
15. Work, play and learning Christopher Winch
16. Boundaries as limits and possibilities Scott L. Pratt
17. Knowing scientifically is essential for democratic society Christine McCarthy
18. Educational values: schools as cultures of imagination, growth, and fulfillment Steven Fesmire
19. The value of the present: rethinking labor and leisure through education Scott R. Stroud
20. An old story: Dewey's account of the opposition between the intellectual and the practical David I. Waddington
21. Nature and human life in an education for democracy Martin A. Coleman
22. Individuality and a flourishing society: a reciprocal relationship Hongmei Peng
23. Autonomy, occupation and vocational education Christopher Winch
24. Philosophy of education Richard Pring
25. Healing splits: Dewey's theory of knowing Barbara Thayer-Bacon
26. The consciously growing and refreshing life Douglas J. Simpson
Part II. Democracy and Education in Context: Introduction to Part II Andrea R. English
27. The dialogue of death and life: education, civilization, and growth Thomas Alexander
28. John Dewey, a modern thinker: on education (as Bildung and Erziehung) and democracy (as a political system and a mode of associated living) Dietrich Benner
29. John Dewey's refutation of classical educational thinking Jürgen Oelkers
30. The social as the 'inclusive philosophic idea' of democracy and education: some constructivists' reflections Jim Garrison, Stefan Neubert and Kersten Reich
31. John Dewey and the analytic paradigm in philosophy of education: conceptual analysis as a social aim? Christopher Martin
32. Dewey, care ethics, and education Nel Noddings
33. Technologies for democracy and education in the 21st century Craig A. Cunningham
34. Inviting Dewey to an online forum: using technology to deepen student understanding of democracy and education Rosetta Marantz Cohen
35. John Dewey: philosopher of education for our time Richard Pring
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC], Education [JN], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychological theory & schools of thought [JMA], Psychology [JM], Social & political philosophy [HPS]