Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions
Subtitle: the reading of John Dewey's understanding of democracy and education
By: Rosa Bruno-Jofré ... [et al.].
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780773537842; 9780773537859
Subjects: Église et éducation; Democracy and education; Critique et interprétation; Church and education; Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Démocratie et éducation
Description: "How are ideas about education and democracy configured and reconfigured as they travel? Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions looks at the work of John Dewey, the renowned philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, and the ways in which his educational ideas and democratic ideals have been configured and reconfigured, adopted, and interpreted in different historical and cultural spaces." "Using case studies of China, Spain, and the American Interdenominational Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, the four authors explore the ways in which each alternative reading of Dewey's ideas was nested in the regionally dominant ideologies that preceded the arrival of his work and show that interpretations of his work developed differently in each setting, as a means of adapting to local needs." "Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions challenges us to think in new ways about how ideas are configured in historical contexts and how their interpretation is mediated by specific beliefs and historical circumstances."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Socialism or Protestant democracy :; title: the pragmatist response to the perils of metropolis and modern industry in the late nineteenth century  -- Daniel Tröhler; title: Must democratic aims means ally :; title: a historical-philosophical answer from an unlikely context  -- James Scott Johnston; title: Reading of the pedagogy of John Dewey in Spain in the early twentieth century :; title: reconciling pragmatism and transcendence  -- Gonzalo Jover; title: To those in "heathen darkness" :; title: Deweyan democracy and education in the American interdenominational configuration :; title: the case of committee on cooperation in Latin America -- Rosa Bruno-Jofré.