John Dewey and the paradox of liberal reform / William Andrew Paringer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paringer, William Andrew, 1948-

Series:

SUNY series, global conflict and peace education.

SUNY series, global conflict and peace education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1990.

Summary:

This book provides a fresh critique of John Dewey and the progressive tradition and warns against the superficial renaissance of Deweyan philosophy present in many of today's modern liberal educational reform movements. Challenging the four pillars of Dewey's pragmatism--science, nature, democracy, experience--Paringer argues for a critical or radical education praxis that more sensitively comes to grips with the difficulties of teh nuclearized, postmodern world.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Betty Reardon

Preface

Introduction: Problem and Crisis

Reform and Schooling

Nuclearization

Ideology

Towards Social Justice

Educational Praxis

Part I: The Scientific And The Transformational

Democracy

Pragmatism

Individualism

Democracy and Education

Scientific

Ideological Critique or Educative Method

Social Justice

Part II: The Natural and the Historical

Nature and the Natural

The Functional

Development

Progressivism

History

Part III: The Personal and the Political

Experience

Praxis

Epilogue

Notes

Introduction

Part I

Part II

Part III

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4384-1550-8

0-585-05535-1

OCLC:

42855107