John Dewey’s philosophy of education: an introduction and recontextualization for our times

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 stillexercise 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 recontexualizationsthat readers might wish to carry out for themselves. INDICE: 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.Selectionof Target Texts.PART IV: CRITICISM AND CONCERNS - RECONSTRUCTING DEWEY FOR OUR TIMES.Introduction.Bauman.Foucault.Bourdieu.Derrida.Levinas.Rorty

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-2617-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 27/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido