John Dewey at 150

by Rud, A. G.; Garrison, Jim; Stone, Lynda

• ISBN13: 9781557535504
• ISBN10: 1557535507
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

The sesquicentennial of the birth of John Dewey is in 2009. In recognition of this occasion, John Dewey at One Hundred-Fifty: Reflections for a New Century, with contributors drawn from the members of the John Dewey Society, will be published as both a journal issue and a book. The papers will appear as an issue of the Society's journal, Education and Culture, in late fall 2009, and as a book by Purdue University Press.

Author Biography

A.G. Rud is Head of the Department of Educational Studies at Purdue University and editor of the journal of the John Dewey Society, Education and Culture. His areas of interest include philosophy of education, leadership education, and moral education. Jim Garrison is a professor of philosophy of education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. His work concentrates on philosophical pragmatism. Garrison is a past winner of the Jim Merritt award for his scholarship in the philosophy of education and the John Dewey society Outstanding Achievement Award. He is the immediate past-president of the John Dewey Society. Lynda Stone is a professor of philosophy of education at University of North Carolina, director of Graduate studies, and area Chair of Culture, Curriculam and Change (CCC). She teaches courses in the Ph.D. in education, CCCs, and the Master of Arts in Teaching program. Stone is the current president of the John Dewey Society.

Table of Contents

Introductin	p. 1
Looking Forward from A Common Faith	p. 11
Secularism, Secularization, and John Dewey	p. 18
How to Use Pragmatism Pragmatically? Suggestions for the Twenty-First Century	p. 30
Transforming Schooling through Technology: Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Participatory Learning	p. 40
Dewey's Aesthetics and Today's Moral Education	p. 50
Toward Inclusion and Human Unity: Rethinking Dewey's Democratic Community	p. 61
More than "Mere Ideas": Deweyan Tools for the Contemporary Philosopher	p. 73
Reconstruction in Dewey's Pragmatism: Home, Neighborhood, and Otherness	p. 84
Inquiry, Agency, and Art: John Dewey's Contribution to Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism	p. 96
Dewey and Cosmopolitanism	p. 104
Notes	p. 117
Bibligraphy	p. 131
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