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-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Educational change.

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely, persuasive, and hopeful book reexamines John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. The authors assert that American colleges and universities bear a responsibility for-and would benefit substantially from-working with schools to develop democratic schools and communities. Dewey's Dream opens with a reappraisal of Dewey's philosophy and an argument for its continued relevance today. The authors-all well-known in education circles-use illust

Contents:

Introduction : Dewey's lifelong crusade for participatory democracy

Michigan beginnings, 1884-1894

Dewey at the University of Chicago, 1894-1904

Dewey leaves the University of Chicago for Columbia University

Elsie Clapp's contributions to community schools

Penn and the third revolution in American higher education

The Center for Community Partnerships

The university civic responsibility idea becomes an international movement

John Dewey, the Coalition for Community Schools, and developing a participatory democratic American society.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786611093808

9781281093806

1281093807

9781592135936

1592135935

OCLC:

437182573