Dewey's dream : universities and democracies in an age of education reform : civil society, public schools, and democratic citizenship /

This timely, persuasive, and hopeful book reexamines John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. The authors assert that American colleges and universities bear a responsibil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Benson, Lee (Autor), Harkavy, Ira Richard (Autor), Puckett, John L., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Dewey, John, > 1859-1952.
Dewey, John, > 1859-1952
Education > Philosophy.
Educational change.
School improvement programs.
Éducation > Philosophie.
Enseignement > Réforme.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
EDUCATION > General.
School improvement programs
Education > Philosophy
Educational change
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Dewey's lifelong crusade for participatory democracy
  • Michigan beginnings, 1884-1894
  • Dewey at the University of Chicago, 1894-1904
  • Dewey leaves the University of Chicago for Columbia University
  • Elsie Clapp's contributions to community schools
  • Penn and the third revolution in American higher education
  • The Center for Community Partnerships
  • The university civic responsibility idea becomes an international movement
  • John Dewey, the Coalition for Community Schools, and developing a participatory democratic American society.

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