Dewey and education in the 21st century : fighting back / edited by Ruth Heilbronn, Christine Doddington, Rupert Higham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Heilbronn, Ruth, editor.

Doddington, Christine, editor.

Higham, Rupert, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Experiential learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book makes a strong case for the abiding relevance of Dewey's notion of learning through experience with a community of others, and what this implies for democratic education in the 21st century. Its first section addresses the experience of today's generation of 'digital natives' in terms of how we should now understand 'knowledge' and how their online experience creates opportunities and challenges for the curriculum. A chapter shows schools linking internationally to study classical texts. Another has an exposition of how makerspaces, hackerspaces and Feb Labs might support Dewey's democratic communities with on-line affordances of 'a commons', a space for invention and sharing with others. The book's second section is original in its focus on the central Deweyan idea of 'embodiment' with chapters on Dewey and the Alexander technique and on experiences of Afro-American students, in public schools, especially those situated in multi-racial, multi-ethnic countries like the U.S. with deep, racial divides and tensions. The section ends with a chapter on the somaesthetic, educational value of learning outdoors. A third section on experience related to democracy and educational, has chapters on Dewey and the democratic curriculum, experience as a preparation for democracy and communication and a critique of individualism. Dewey's notion of interest is analyzed and questioned as to whether it is a sympathetic notion for educational development. With contributions from Spain, Cameroon, the US and the UK the book ranges across varied curricular and policy contexts to explore what reading Dewey can contribute to contemporary education studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Front Cover; Dewey and Education in The 21st Century: Fighting Back; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor Biographies; Contributor Biographies; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Figures; Editors' Introduction: The Book, the Conference and Fighting Back; Introduction; Part One

Dewey and Technology; Part Two

Dewey and Embodiment; Part Three

Democracy and Development; Epilogue; References; Part 1 Dewey, Experience and Technology; Chapter 1 Preserving Rich Experience in the Digital Age; Introduction; Framing Experience; Like Clockwork: Digitally Enriched Experience in Action

Framing the Work in Broader ContextsLasting Impact of Experience; A Framework for Experience-Based, Technology-Enhanced Thinking; Tool Selection and Use; Closing Thoughts: Is This the Right Way to Use Technology?; References; Chapter 2 The Emergence of Makerspaces, Hackerspaces and Fab Labs: Dewey's Democratic Communities of the Twenty-first Century?; Introduction; Formally or Naturally Occurring Education; Newer Forms of Space

The Makerspace; Case Study; The Nature of Learning and a Space to 'Be'; Discussion and Conclusion; References

Chapter 3 Constructing Creative Democracy at School by Reading the Classics: A Dialogue between Martha Nussbaum and John DeweyIntroduction; On Antigone and Nussbaum; On Antigone, Dewey and Democracy; An Educational Experience of Creative Democracy with Antigone; References; Part 2 Dewey, Experience and Bodies; Chapter 4 Dewey and the Alexander Technique: Lessons in Mind-Body Learning; Introduction; Body, Mind and Thinking; John Dewey and F. Matthias Alexander; Embodied Learning via the AT; Habit and Learning; Unreliable Sensory Appreciation; The Technique as a Process of Self-Development

Experiential Somaesthetic Practice-ImmediacyThe Challenge in Bodily-Led Engagement with the World; Flexibility in Habit and Environment; Conclusion; References; Part 3 Dewey, Experience, Democracy and Education; Chapter 7 Dewey and the Democratic Curriculum; Introduction; Democratic Education and the Academic/Vocational Divide; Standards and the Curriculum; Stakeholders and the Curriculum; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 Dewey Anticipates Habermas's Paradigm of Communication: The Critique of Individualism and the Basis for Moral Authority in Democracy and Education; Introduction

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 09, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781787436251

178743625X

Publisher Number:

99977447200

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.