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Book SynopsisNew Studies in Deweyan Education examines in detail some of John Deweyâs most influential writings by connecting them with contemporary issues, perspectives, controversies, and debates. By bringing together scholars from the United States and Germany, this volume offers an international perspective on current implications, challenges, and risks of democracy and education in the contemporary world.
This book elaborates on the continuing relevance, resourcefulness, and richness of the Deweyan tradition as a frame of thought and action in the sphere of education. It is divided into three main parts: Education, Schooling, and Democracy; Education and the Reconstruction of Philosophy; and Education, Economy, and the Changing Forms of Capitalism. The chapters in this volume build on each other as they provide a multifaceted picture of Deweyan educationâs role in societal reconstruction. Written for students and scholars in the fields of education and philosophy, New Studies in Deweyan Education represents a new, unique, and innovative way of approaching the problems and opportunities of democracy and education then and now.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Technical Philosophy, Educational Practice – Democracy and Education after 100 Years; 2. Revisiting The School and Society; 3. Gender Constructions in Progressive Education and Their Impact on Co-Education; 4. Inclusive Education as a Democratic Challenge – Ambivalences of Communities in Contexts of Power; 5. Teachers as Team Players and Lifelong Learners – Using Differences as a Door Opener for Growth and Inclusive Education; 6. Experience, Thinking, and Education – Dewey’s Long Logic; 7. Imprecision and Indeterminacy’s Contribution to the Pragmatist Reconstruction of Philosophy; 8. Foucault’s Technologies of the Self as a Theoretical Tool for Extending Dewey’s Cultural Contextualism – An Interpretation from the Perspective of Cologne Constructivism; 9. "Growth," Economic and Human – On the Reconstruction of Economics Through Pragmatism and the Capabilities Approach; 10. Forms of Capital and Questions of Social Justice; 11. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Work of Kersten Reich – On the Way to Constructivism and Inclusion
