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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780922203321

Autore

Fairfield Paul <1966->

Titolo

Education after Dewey [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Fairfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2009

ISBN

1-282-46667-4

9786612466670

1-4411-5828-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Classificazione

EDU039000EDU000000

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Education - Aims and objectives

Education, Humanistic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Note about References; Introduction: An Enigmatic Transition; Part 1: The Educative Process; 1 Beyond Progressivism and Conservatism; 2 Dewey's Copernican Revolution; 3 What Is Called Thinking?; Part 2: Education in the Human Sciences; 4 Teaching Philosophy: The Scholastic and the Thinker; 5 Teaching Religion: Spiritual Training or Indoctrination?; 6 Teaching Ethics: From Moralism to Experimentalism; 7 Teaching Politics: Training for Democratic Citizenship; 8 Teaching History: The Past and the Present; 9 Teaching Literature: Life and Narrative; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W

Sommario/riassunto

This study re-examines John Dewey's philosophy of education, and asks how well it stands up today in view of developments in Continental European philosophy. Do Martin Heidegger's statements on the nature of thinking compel a re-examination of Dewey's view? Does Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophy of experience advance beyond Dewey's experimental model? How does a Deweyan view of moral or political education look in light of Hannah Arendt's theory of judgment, or Paulo Freires's theory of dialogical education? Part One of this study looks at Dewey's conceptions of experience and thinking in connec