John Dewey's philosophy of education
Subtitle: an introduction and recontextualization for our times
By: Jim Garrison, Stefan Neubert, Kersten Reich
Contributors: Neubert, Stefan; Reich, Kersten
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781137026170
Subjects: Social aspects; Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy; Education; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Description: "John Dewey is considered not only as one of the founders of pragmatism, but also as an educational classic whose approaches to education and learning still exercise great influence on current discourses and practices internationally. In this book, we first provide an introduction to Dewey's educational theories that is founded on a broad and comprehensive reading of his philosophy as a whole. We discuss Dewey's path-breaking contributions by focusing on three important paradigm shifts - namely, the cultural, constructive and communicative turns in 20th century educational thinking. Secondly, we seek to recontexualize Dewey for a new generation who has come of age in a very different world than that in which Dewey lived and wrote. We provide examples of such recontextualization by connecting his philosophy with six recent and influential discourses (Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, Levinas, Rorty). These serve as models for other recontexualizations that readers might wish to carry out for themselves"--