The Global Reception of John Dewey's Thought: Multiple Refractions Through Time and Space

by Bruno-JofrT; Rosa

• ISBN13: 9780415898881
• ISBN10: 0415898889
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume explores the reception of John Dewey'¬"s ideas in various historical and geographical settings such as Japan, China, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Russia, and Germany, analyzing how and why Dewey'¬"s thought was interpreted in various ways according to mediating local discursive and ideological configurations and formations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Deweyan Thought Refracted Through Time and Space: Studies on the Trans-Continental Dissemination and Culture-Specific Re-Contextualization of Educational Knowledge	p. 1
Reading Dewey in the Hispanic American World: Legitimizing Modernization
The Readings of John Dewey's Work and the Intersection of Catholicism: The Cases of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and the Thesis of Father Alberto Hurtado, S.J. on Dewey	p. 23
Dewey in Argentina (1916-1946): Tradition, Intention, and Situation in the Production of a Selective Reading	p. 43
Ruralizing Dewey: The American Friend, Internal Colonization, and the Action School in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1921-1940)	p. 59
Reception and Appropriation of Dewey's Ideas in East Asia
The Chinese Dewey: Friend, Fiend, and Flagship	p. 83
Re-Contextualizing Foreign Influence in Japan's Educational History: The (Re)Reception of John Dewey	p. 116
Dewey in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Space
Diffusion-Reception Networks of Pedagogical Knowledge: The Circulation of John Dewey's Educational Discourse in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Space	p. 149
Political and Social Contours Framing the Uptaking of Dewey's Ideas in Western and Eastern Europe
John Dewey and the Development of Education in Russia Before 1930: Report on a Forgotten Reception	p. 173
A "New Republic"? The Debate between John Dewey and Walter Lippmann and Its Reception in Pre- and Postwar Germany	p. 196
Afterword: Intersections, Oppositions, and Configurations in the Transnational Readings of Dewey	p. 215
Contributors	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 263
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