Indeed, my aim is to demonstrate the continuity in thought and action between teaching and the business of leading a life in informed ways. His view is that teaching is an interpretative activity that is motivated by concern for students as human beings. In brief, Critical Theory and Curriculum Theory both make claims to Dewey's educational philosophy. In this essay, Peter Hlebowitsh argues that a discussion of this issue should lead toward a better understanding of those who have tried to capture the essence of Dewey's practical theory, as well as those who have chosen not to represent it. Student achievement is a function of school organization and, indirectly, of the structure of school control, rather than the social background of students.
Hogan explores the latter argument.
This book should be read as another thread in the conversation in the tradition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own , that of indirection and reinscription. The last decade has seen a rising interest in qualitative research in education. Often expressed in a desire for case studies, ethnography, and other modes of participant observation, these methods grew out of the influence of phenomenology, which proved too difficult for behavioral sciences and social scientists.