Garrison / Neubert / Reich John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education

An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-02618-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 213 Seiten, eBook

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, the authors first provide an introduction to Dewey's educational theories that is founded on a broad and comprehensive reading of his philosophy as a whole. They discuss Dewey's path-breaking contributions by focusing on three important paradigm shifts – namely, the cultural, constructive, and communicative turns in twentieth-century educational thinking. Secondly, the authors recontexualize Dewey for a new generation who has come of age in a very different world than that in which Dewey lived and wrote 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrison, J.

Neubert, S.

Reich, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: EDUCATION AND CULTURE – THE CULTURAL TURN Nature and Culture Culture and Experience Education and Social Life Formal and Informal Education Interaction, Transaction, and Communication Selection of Target Texts PART II: EDUCATION AS RECONSTRUCTION OF EXPERIENCE – THE CONSTRUCTIVE TURN Experience and Education: The biological Dimension Experience and Education: The social Dimension Experience and Education: Growth The Reflex Arc Concept Habits, Impulse, and Intelligence Inquiry and the Five Steps of Research and Reflective Learning Re/De/Construction Selection of Target Texts PART III: EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, AND DEMOCRACY – THE COMMUNICATIVE TURN Education and Communication Learning and Joint Activities The Democratic Vision Participation and Diversity Social Intelligence and Democratic Reconstruction Selection of Target Texts PART IV: CRITICISM AND CONCERNS – RECONSTRUCTING DEWEY FOR OUR TIMES Introduction Bauman Foucault Bourdieu Derrida Levinas Rorty

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Garrison is Professor of Education at Virginia Tech University, USA Stefan Neubert teaches at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is co-director of the Cologne Dewey Center. Kersten Reich teaches in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany.