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John Dewey, Smith-Hughes, and Vocational Education: A New Impetus for an Old Discussion
Many modern discussions on Vocational education and Training (VET) only consider it’s goals in terms of the labor market or social inclusion. This...
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John Dewey: Education for Democracy
John Dewey was an American educational thinker who lived during a time of great change. Dewey was trained as a philosopher and worked at major...
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Demokratie und Erziehung: John Dewey
Der Pragmatismus, also jener von Charles Sanders um die Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert in den USA begründete, von William James, George Herbert...
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Zooming in on Dewey, Democracy, and Subjectivity in Postdigital Education
Digital tools, such as video conference technology, are currently transforming people’s behaviour, social relations, and learning processes in higher...
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Where Merleau-Ponty Meets Dewey: Habit, Embodiment, and Education
This paper utilises selective writings by John Dewey and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as the conceptual basis for considering how an enhanced synergistic...
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Dewey, Existential Uncertainty and Non-affirmative Democratic Education
In this chapter, I show how John Dewey’s understanding of the educational meaning of existential uncertainty lies at the heart of his idea of...
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Dewey, Democracy, and Holocaust Education
Having lived through both World War I and II, Dewey was well aware of what could happen when democracy was not the basis of a society and insisted...
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Kurt Lewin und John Dewey Brüder im Geiste? – Demokratisierungsprozesse in der Schule
Der Psychologe Kurt Lewin beschäftigt sich bereits 1941 in seinem Artikel ‚Demokratie und Schule‘ mit Fragen der Demokratisierung des Unterrichts....
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John Locke: The Empirical Educator
John Locke is known as the founder of the philosophical school of empiricism. This school of thought is that knowledge must be gained through...
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Pragmatism—John Dewey
Pragmatism (or Instrumentalism or Experimentalism) has been described as ‘an attitude’, ‘a theory of the nature of ideas and truth’, and ‘a theory...
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Dewey Meets Confucius
Starting from John Dewey’s first-time encounter with Chinese traditional education, this chapter analyzes the social and political background of this...
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Confronting and agonistic: what democracy requires of curricula
This paper draws upon the philosophical reconstruction of John Dewey to examine the demise of democracy by neoliberal elites as described by the...
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John Dewey and Progressive Education
In present-day textbooks on education, Dewey’s name is associated with progressive education. This chapter outlined progressivism in America...
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Radicalizing the Role of the Emancipatory Teacher in the Crisis of Democracy: Erich Fromm’s Psychoanalytic Approach to Deweyan Democratic Education
This paper explores Erich Fromm’s contribution to Deweyan democratic education by referring to his psychoanalytic interpretation of John Dewey’s...
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Twentieth-Century Jeffersonian Intervention: John Dewey and the Predicaments of American Democracy
The chapter examines John Dewey’s understanding of the centrality of Jefferson’s thought to the American political and educational tradition. It...
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Ways and Sideways of Emancipation: Dewey’s Reception in Different Political Eras of an Other-Than-Western Context
The aim of this chapter is to highlight how emancipatory educational ideas of one and the same author (here John Dewey) are always interpreted...
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John Dewey (1859–1952): Democratic Hope Through Higher Education
Focusing on Dewey’s hope for democracy, this chapter attempts to show how his pragmatism and philosophy of democracy can have impact on higher...
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Experience, Growth, Habit, and Community: The Keys to Understanding Self-cultivation in the Works of John Dewey
Self-cultivation is a term with broad meanings, and there is as yet no standard academic definition for the range of meanings that it conveys....
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Dewey in China
Dewey’s visit to China (1919–1921) was a puzzling story which had made enormous impact on him and many Chinese intellectuals. I discovered that...