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John Dewey and the paradox of liberal reform /

This book provides a fresh critique of John Dewey and the progressive tradition and warns against the superficial renaissance of Deweyan philosophy present in many of today's modern liberal educational reform movements. Challenging the four pillars of Dewey's pragmatism--science, nature, d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Paringer, William Andrew, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1990.
Series:SUNY series, global conflict and peace education.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by Betty Reardon
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Problem and Crisis
  • Reform and Schooling
  • Nuclearization
  • Ideology
  • Towards Social Justice
  • Educational Praxis
  • Part I: The Scientific And The Transformational
  • Democracy
  • Pragmatism
  • Individualism
  • Democracy and Education
  • Scientific
  • Ideological Critique or Educative Method
  • Social Justice
  • Part II: The Natural and the Historical
  • Nature and the Natural
  • The Functional
  • Development
  • Progressivism
  • History
  • Part III: The Personal and the Political
  • Experience.
  • Praxis
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W.