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This book examines some of John Dewey's most influential writings by connecting them with contemporary issues, perspectives, controversies and debates. This volume provides students and scholars in the fields of education and philosophy a new, unique and innovative way of approaching the problems and opportunities of democracy and education.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Technical Philosophy, Educational Practice - Democracy and Education after 100 Years; 2. Revisiting
The School and Society; 3. Gender Constructions in Progressive Education and Their Impact on Co-Education; 4. Inclusive Education as a Democratic Challenge - Ambivalences of Communities in Contexts of Power; 5. Teachers as Team Players and Lifelong Learners - Using Differences as a Door Opener for Growth and Inclusive Education; 6. Experience, Thinking, and Education - Dewey's Long Logic; 7. Imprecision and Indeterminacy's Contribution to the Pragmatist Reconstruction of Philosophy; 8. Foucault's Technologies of the Self as a Theoretical Tool for Extending Dewey's Cultural Contextualism - An Interpretation from the Perspective of Cologne Constructivism; 9. "Growth," Economic and Human - On the Reconstruction of Economics Through Pragmatism and the Capabilities Approach; 10. Forms of Capital and Questions of Social Justice; 11. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Work of Kersten Reich - On the Way to Constructivism and Inclusion
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Meike Kricke is Member of the Executive Board and Executive Director of the Non-Profit Montag Foundation "Youth and Society" (Montag-Stiftung Jugend und Gesellschaft), Bonn, and an Associated Researcher for the Dewey-Center of the University of Cologne. She is an Educated Primary-School Teacher and Educational Scientist.
Stefan Neubert is Professor of Education at the Departent for Education and Social Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne. He is the Director of the Dewey-Center of the University of Cologne.
Zusammenfassung
This book examines some of John Dewey’s most influential writings by connecting them with contemporary issues, perspectives, controversies and debates. This volume provides students and scholars in the fields of education and philosophy a new, unique and innovative way of approaching the problems and opportunities of democracy and education.
