Dewey's dream [[electronic resource] ] : universities and democracies in an age of education reform : civil society, public schools, and democratic citizenship / / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784266903321
• Autore: Benson Lee
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-09380-7; 9786611093808; 1-59213-593-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HarkavyIra Richard; PuckettJohn L. <1947->
• Disciplina: 370.1
• Soggetti: Education - Philosophy; Educational change
• 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 (p. [131]-141) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Dewey's lifelong crusade for participatory democracy -- Michigan beginnings, 1884-1894 -- Dewey at the University of Chicago, 1894-1904 -- Dewey leaves the University of Chicago for Columbia University -- Elsie Clapp's contributions to community schools -- Penn and the third revolution in American higher education -- The Center for Community Partnerships -- The university civic responsibility idea becomes an international movement -- John Dewey, the Coalition for Community Schools, and developing a participatory democratic American society.
• Sommario/riassunto: This timely, persuasive, and hopeful book reexamines John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. The authors assert that American colleges and universities bear a responsibility for-and would benefit substantially from-working with schools to develop democratic schools and communities. Dewey's Dream opens with a reappraisal of Dewey's philosophy and an argument for its continued relevance today. The authors-all well-known in education circles-use illust