Dewey's Dream : Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benson, Lee (Author), Puckett, John L., 1947- (Author), Harkavy, Ira Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dewey, John, > 1859-1952.
Educational change.
Education > Philosophy.
School improvement programs.
EDUCATION > General.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Enseignement > Reforme.
Éducation > Philosophie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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