Dewey in our time : learning from John Dewey for transcultural practice / edited by Peter Cunningham and Ruth Heilbronn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunningham, Peter, 1948- editor.

Heilbronn, Ruth, editor.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Institute of Education Press, University College London, [2016]

Summary:

Dewey in Our Time brings together leading writers from around the world who are actively engaged in applying Dewey's thought to the challenges facing educational systems and teachers in school. Issues concerning equity, social justice, curriculum and pedagogy, teachers' roles and their professional identity are considered, with examples from the Americas, Asia and Europe. John Dewey's outstanding achievement was to generate a discourse that has informed both educational policymaking and classroom activity, around the globe and over the course of a century. His ideas provoked controversy during his own lifetime, and increasingly so with the dominant neoliberal trend of globalized politics in the twenty-first century. On the one hand he inspired ways of teaching and learning that are especially apt in our own technological age; on the other, his breadth of philosophical critique continues to be evoked and emulated by critical-thinkers on education today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Dewey in changing trans cultural contexts

1 'On a piece of research together': Teaching at John Dewey's Laboratory School, with implications for teacher education today / Anne Durst Durst, Anne 10

2 Textbook Dewey: Disseminating educational philosophy, then and now / Peter Cunningham Cunningham, Peter 24

3 Democracy and Education then and now: 'De-pragmatizing' and 'ultra-pragmatizing' readings of John Dewey's pedagogy / Gonzalo Jover Jover, Gonzalo 40

4 From Dewey to Kinokuni: An intellectual and professional journey in Japan / Yoko Yamasaki Yamasaki, Yoko 56

5 John Dewey and the comprehensive high school / William G. Wraga Wraga, William G. 74

Part 2 Dewey, pedagogy and practice in our time

6 Dewey and the teaching experience / Javier Saenz Obregon Obregon, Javier Saenz 95

7 Dewey, knowledge and experience in ethical teaching / Ruth Heilbronn Heilbronn, Ruth 113

8 The 'in-between' of learning: (Re)valuing the process of learning / Andrea R. English English, Andrea R. 128

9 In defence of pragmatism: The teacher as researcher / Richard Pring Pring, Richard 144

10 Reconstructing Deweyan democratic education for a globalizing world / Jessica Ching-Sze Wang Wang, Jessica Ching-Sze 158

Postscript: Deweyan practice in our time / Peter Cunningham Cunningham, Peter, Ruth Heilbronn Heilbronn, Ruth 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781782771708

1782771700

OCLC:

960037125

Publisher Number:

99970131538