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 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.

Author: J. Garrison, S. Neubert, K. Reich
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/06/2012
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781137026170

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2013

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.