John Dewey's Philosophy of Education: An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times

by J. Garrison, S. Neubert, K. Reich

Overview

John Dewey is considered not only as one of the founders of pragmatism, but also as an educational classic whose approaches to education and learning still exercise great influence on current discourses and practices internationally. In this book, the authors first provide an introduction to Dewey's educational theories that is founded on a broad and comprehensive reading of his philosophy as a whole. They discuss Dewey's path-breaking contributions by focusing on three important paradigm shifts – namely, the cultural, constructive, and communicative turns in twentieth-century educational thinking. Secondly, the authors recontexualize Dewey for a new generation who has come of age in a very different world than that in which Dewey lived and wrote by connecting his philosophy with six recent and influential discourses (Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, Levinas, Rorty). These serve as models for other recontexualizations that readers might wish to carry out for themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349439102
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/06/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jim Garrison is Professor of Education at Virginia Tech University, USA

Stefan Neubert teaches at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is co-director of the Cologne Dewey Center.

Kersten Reich teaches in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: EDUCATION AND CULTURE – THE CULTURAL TURN

Nature and Culture

Culture and Experience

Education and Social Life

Formal and Informal Education

Interaction, Transaction, and Communication

Selection of Target Texts

PART II: EDUCATION AS RECONSTRUCTION OF EXPERIENCE – THE CONSTRUCTIVE TURN

Experience and Education: The biological Dimension

Experience and Education: The social Dimension

Experience and Education: Growth

The Reflex Arc Concept

Habits, Impulse, and Intelligence

Inquiry and the Five Steps of Research and Reflective Learning

Re/De/Construction

Selection of Target Texts

PART III: EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, AND DEMOCRACY – THE COMMUNICATIVE TURN

Education and Communication

Learning and Joint Activities

The Democratic Vision

Participation and Diversity

Social Intelligence and Democratic Reconstruction

Selection of Target Texts

PART IV: CRITICISM AND CONCERNS – RECONSTRUCTING DEWEY FOR OUR TIMES

Introduction

Bauman

Foucault

Bourdieu

Derrida

Levinas

Rorty

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Garrison, Neubert and Reich have given their readers a well organized and highly accessible volume that presents John Dewey's key contributions to philosophy and education in a clear and comprehensive fashion. Educators and others will be especially grateful for their extensive discussion of how Dewey's ideas relate to the insights of six of the central figures of post-structuralist thought." - Larry A. Hickman, director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

"Most of the educational literature on Dewey suffers either from a neglect of the origins of Dewey's educational theory in his seminal philosophical work in the late 19th and early 20th century on psychology, nature, culture, metaphysics and epistemology or from a presentist prejudice that neglects the necessity of fresh hermeneutical readings of Dewey in tension with contemporary theorists and public problems. In John Dewey's Philosophy of Education: An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times, Garrison, Neubert and Reich offer correctives to both problems by introducing the development of Dewey's educational theory through an expert and insightful analysis of his early philosophical writings and bringing Dewey's views into a contemporary gaze by a reconstructive discussion of their transaction with modern philosophers such as Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, Levinas and Rorty. The result is a work of serious philosophical and educational scholarship that will interest and benefit both students and scholars of philosophy and education." - James M. Giarelli, Professor, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, USA

"John Dewey's Philosophy of Education is meticulously researched and skillfully recontextualized. I highly recommend the book." - Douglas J. Simpson, Texas Tech University, USA

"The authors do a great service in modernizing Dewey and especially in showing his relevance to thinking broadly beyond the confines of his own culture . . . Recommended" - Choice

Editorial Reviews

"Garrison, Neubert and Reich have given their readers a well organized and highly accessible volume that presents John Dewey's key contributions to philosophy and education in a clear and comprehensive fashion. Educators and others will be especially grateful for their extensive discussion of how Dewey's ideas relate to the insights of six of the central figures of post-structuralist thought." - Larry A. Hickman, director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

"Most of the educational literature on Dewey suffers either from a neglect of the origins of Dewey's educational theory in his seminal philosophical work in the late 19th and early 20th century on psychology, nature, culture, metaphysics and epistemology or from a presentist prejudice that neglects the necessity of fresh hermeneutical readings of Dewey in tension with contemporary theorists and public problems. In John Dewey's Philosophyof Education: An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times, Garrison, Neubert and Reich offer correctives to both problems by introducing the development of Dewey's educational theory through an expert and insightful analysis of his early philosophical writings and bringing Dewey's views into a contemporary gaze by a reconstructive discussion of their transaction with modern philosophers such as Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, Levinas and Rorty. The result is a work of serious philosophical and educational scholarship that will interest and benefit both students and scholars of philosophy and education." - James M. Giarelli, Professor, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, USA

"John Dewey's Philosophy of Education is meticulously researched and skillfully recontextualized. I highly recommend the book." - Douglas J. Simpson, Texas Tech University, USA

"The authors do a great service in modernizing Dewey and especially in showing his relevance to thinking broadly beyond the confines of his own culture . . . Recommended" - Choice

From the Publisher