Dewey's dream : universities and democracies in an age of education reform : civil society, public schools, and democratic citizenship / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benson, Lee.

Contributor:

Harkavy, Ira Richard.

Puckett, John L., 1947-

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

xiv, 149 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: Dewey's Lifelong Crusade for Participatory Democracy xi

Chapter 1 Michigan Beginnings, 1884-1894 3

Dewey's First Attempt to Combine Theory and Practice 7

Chapter 2 Dewey at the University of Chicago, 1894-1904 13

President Harper and Chicago's Department of Pedagogy 14

Plato's The Republic and Dewey's Philosophy of Education 20

Participatory Democratic Societies and Participatory Democratic Schooling Systems 22

Dewey's Laboratory School 24

Wilhelm Wundt's Psychological Laboratory and Deyew's Scientistic Laboratory School 29

Jane Addams, Hull House, and Dewey's Prophetic Essay "The School as Social Centre" 33

The Schooling System as the Strategic Subsystem of Modern Societies 40

Chapter 3 Dewey Leaves the University of Chicago for Columbia University 45

Dewey Abandons Any Attempt to Integrate Schooling Theory and Schooling Practice 46

Dewey vs. Lippmann: Participatory Democracy and Face-to-Face Neighborly Communities 51

Democratic Theory and the Construction of Democratic, Cosmopolitan, Neighborly Communities 54

Chapter 4 Elsie Clapp's Contributions to Community Schools 63

Maurice Seay and Community Schools 69

The Rise and Decline of the Community School Movement after 1945 71

Chapter 5 Penn and the Third Revolution in American Higher Education 77

Increasing Penn's Engagement with Local Public Schools as a Practical Example of Democratic Devolution Revolution 81

An Innovative Strategy to Achieve a Democratic Devolution Revolution 83

Penn and West Philadelphia Public Schools: Learning by Reflective Doing 86

Chapter 6 The Center for Community Partnerships 93

Changing Penn's Undergraduate Curriculum To Help Change West Philadelphia's Public Schools 96

Community Healthcare as a Complex Strategic Problem to "Do Good" and Help Bring about "One University" 99

Democratic Partnerships and Communal Participatory Action Research 104

President Judith Rodin's Inspiring Vision of Penn and West Philadelphia as Constituting a "Beloved Community" 107

President Amy Gutmann Proclaims a "Penn Compact" to "Serve Humanity and Society" 108

Chapter 7 The University Civic Responsibility Idea Becomes an International Movement 111

An International Academic Consortium for the Advancement of Democracy 114

Chapter 8 John Dewey, the Coalition for Community Schools, and Developing a Participatory Democratic American Society 121

Authorship 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-141) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Storage copy has lengthy inscription from Ira Harkavy to Sheldon Hackney.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781592135912

1592135919

9781592135929

1592135927

1592135935

9781592135936

OCLC:

73742705