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Autore: | Benson Lee |
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 |
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-> |
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 |
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