Crusade for democracy : progressive education at the crossroads / Daniel Tanner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanner, Daniel, author.

Contributor:

John Dewey Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

John Dewey Society--History.

John Dewey Society.

Progressive education--United States.

Progressive education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

Revised

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Summary:

Attacks on public schools and efforts to impose nationalizing "reforms" are no less threatening today than they were during the era of progressive education under the conditions that gave rise to the John Dewey Society. Crusade for Democracy, Second Edition, tells the fascinating story of the Progressive Education movement of the 1930s and 1940s, whose core is the founding and early activities of the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture. In a compelling narrative, Daniel Tanner details, through close examination of the scholarly literature and heretofore unexamined archival materials, the colorful personalities and powerful philosophies of this group of educators who worked from the conviction that the struggle and growth of American democracy could not be conducted apart from the public schools. The issues to which the Society directed its attention are, he argues, perennial ones—the appropriate relationship between school and society, the purpose of education in a democracy, social inequality, textbook censorship, academic freedom, and so on. In this new edition, Tanner points to such recent phenomena as charter schools, testing mandates, and narrowed "core standards" curricula as raising the question of whether the John Dewey Society is losing its way, becoming just another philosophical society, or whether it will reclaim its legacy by advancing the democratic prospect for school and society.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface to the Revised Edition""; ""Foreword to the First Edition""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Introduction to the First Edition""; ""I. On the Brink of Disaster""; ""II. The Formative Meetings""; ""Searching for a Name""; ""III. Origins and Connections""; ""The Teachers College Discussion Group and The John Dewey Society""; ""IV. The Last of the Founders""; ""V. Recollections and Retrospections""; ""Reconstructionists and Experimentalists""; ""Hard Times�From Economic Depression to Ideological Repression""; ""VI. The Letters""

""Ralph Winfred Tyler (1902�1994)""""Sidney Hook (1902�1989)""; ""Donald Perry Cottrell (1902�1991)""; ""Notes""; ""VII. This Ordeal of Democracy""; ""Textbook Censorship""; ""VIII. The John Dewey Society and The Social Frontier""; ""A Losing Struggle""; ""IX. The John Dewey Society and the Progressive Education Association""; ""The Proposed Merger""; ""The John Dewey Society and The American Education Fellowship""; ""X. The Problem of Purpose in the Postwar Period""; ""Seeking Ways to Strengthen Forces that are Working for Democracy""; ""Involvement of Educators at All Levels""

""Unique Role of The John Dewey Society""""Problems: Pervasive and ""Dangerous""""; ""Too Controversial for The School Administrators""; ""Renewal of Purpose""; ""XI. New Directions""; ""Special Writing Grants""; ""John Dewey's Last Published Statement""; ""Education and Action for Democracy""; ""XII. Seeking to Save Progressive Education""; ""XIII. The Yearbooks""; """"The American Problem""""; ""Age of Anxiety""; ""XIV. The Last of the Yearbooks and the Beginning of the Lecture Series""; ""XV. Perspectives and Prospects""; ""To Reclaim a Legacy""; ""Appendix""

""Founding Members of the John Dewey Society""""Yearbooks of the John Dewey Society""; ""The John Dewey Memorial ASCD Lectures (Association for Supervision and Curricular Development)""; ""The John Dewey Lectures""; ""Notes""; ""Presidents of the John Dewey Society""; ""References""; ""About the Author""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438456478

1438456476