Social Class, Social Action, and Education

The Failure of Progressive Democracy
2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10591-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Schutz demonstrates that progressive ideas of democracy emerged out of the practices of a new middle class, reacting, in part, against the more conflictive social struggles of the working-class. The volume traces two distinct branches of democratic progressivism: collaborative and personalist.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schutz, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: OVERVIEW Social Class and Social Action PART II: COLLABORATIVE PROGRESSIVISM John Dewey's Conundrum: Can Democratic Schools Empower? John Dewey and a 'Paradox of Size': Faith at the Limits of Experience PART III: PERSONALIST PROGRESSIVISM The Lost Vision of 1920s Personalists The Free Schools Movement PART IV: DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY Community Organizing: A Working-Class Approach to Democratic Empowerment PART V: CASE STUDY Social Class and Social Action in the Civil Rights Movement PART VI: CONCLUSION Building Bridges?

Über Autor(innen)

AARON SCHUTZ Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.