Dewey & the dilemma of race : an intellectual history, 1895-1922 / Thomas D. Fallace ; foreword by Robert Westbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fallace, Thomas D. (Thomas Daniel)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

African Americans--Education.

African Americans.

Race relations.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

x, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2011]

Summary:

This historical study traces how John Dewey, like most of his contemporaries, struggled with the major dilemma of how to reconcile evolution, pedagogy, democracy, and race. In an original and provocative presentation, the author seeks to capture Dewey's original meaning by placing him in his own intellectual and cultural context. Fallace argues that Dewey created an ethnocentric curriculum at the famous University of Chicago Laboratory School (1896-1904) that traced the linear development of Western civilization and pointed to it as the cultural endpoint of all human progress. However, in the years following the First World War, Dewey reconstructed his orientation into an interactionist-pluralist view that recognized how a diversity of cultures was a necessity for democratic living and intellectual growth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index.

ISBN:

9780807751640

0807751642

9780807751657

0807751650

OCLC:

650505705