Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey Modernities and the Traveling of Pragmatism in Education

by Popkewitz, Thomas S.

• ISBN13: 9780230605145
• ISBN10: 0230605141
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Pragmatism provoked both admiration and fear, as global changes brought into the twentieth century provoked a revisioning of the cultural narratives about who the citizen and child are and should be. In a new book edited by Thomas S. Popkewitz, scholars representing twelve nations provide original chapters to explore the epistemic features and cultural theses figured in Dewey's writings as they assembled in the discourses of public schooling. The significance of Dewey in the book is not about Dewey as the messenger of pragmatism, but in locating different cultural, political, and educational terrains in which debates about modernity, the modern self, and the making of the citizen occurred.

Author Biography

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His studies are concerned with the knowledge or systems of reason that govern educational policy and research in teaching, teacher education, and curriculum, including The Political Sociology of Educational Reform, Governing the Soul, and Cultural History and Education.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Introduction
Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey: Modernities and the Traveling of Pragmatism in Education-An Introduction	p. 3
European Spaces: The Northern and Southern Ties
Dewey as an Epistemic Figure in the Swedish Discourse on Governing the Self	p. 39
Langue as Homeland: The Genevan Reception of Pragmatism	p. 61
Dewey in Belgium: A Libation for Modernity?	p. 85
Dewey on Lima or the Social Prosthesis in the Construction of the New Education Discourse in Portugal (1925-1936)	p. 111
European Spaces: The Southern Eastern Tiers
Balkanizing John Dewey	p. 135
John Dewey's Travelings into the Project of Turkish Modernity	p. 153
The Americas
Discursive Inscriptions in the Fabrication of a Modern Self: Mexican Educational Appropriations of Dewey's Writings	p. 181
John Dewey through the Brazilan Anisio Teixeira or Reenchantment of the World	p. 203
The Appropriation of Dewey's Pedagogy in Colombia as a Cultural Event	p. 231
Asia/Asia Minor
A History of the Present: Chinese Intellectuals, Confucianism and Pragmatism	p. 255
Dewey and the Ambivalent Modern Japan	p. 279
Index	p. 300
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