Social Class, Social Action, and Education - The Failure of Progressive Democracy

Informationen zum Autor AARON SCHUTZ Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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?

Product details

• Authors: a Schutz, A. Schutz, Aaron Schutz, Aaron Schutz Schutz
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349290208
• ISBN: 978-1-349-29020-8
• No. of pages: 279
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Organic chemistry; B, Pädagogik: Theorie und Philosophie, Educational Policy, Social Theory, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Organization and Leadership, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Central / national / federal government policies, Education Policy, Educational Philosophy, Education—Philosophy, School management and organization, Educational administration & organization, School administration, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Education Collection