Dewey's dream : universities and democracies in an age of education reform : civil society, public schools, and democratic citizenship / / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett
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Benson Lee
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| Titolo: |
Dewey's dream : universities and democracies in an age of education reform : civil society, public schools, and democratic citizenship / / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (166 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 370.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Education - Philosophy |
| Educational change | |
| Altri autori: |
HarkavyIra Richard
PuckettJohn L. <1947->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dewey's dream |
| ISBN: | 1-281-09380-7 |
| 9786611093808 | |
| 1-59213-593-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816763403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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