John Dewey's Democracy and Education: A Centennial Handbook

Description

John Dewey's Democracy and Education is the touchstone for a great deal of modern educational theory. It covers a wide range of themes and issues relating to education, including teaching, learning, educational environments, subject matter, values, and the nature of work and play. This Handbook is designed to help experts and non-experts to navigate Dewey's text. The authors are specialists in the fields of philosophy and education; their chapters offer readers expert insight into areas of Dewey work that they know well and have returned to time and time again throughout their careers. The Handbook is divided into two parts. Part I features short companion chapters corresponding to each of Dewey's chapters in Democracy and Education. These serve to guide readers through the complex arguments developed in the book. Part II features general articles placing the book into historical, philosophical and practical contexts and highlighting its relevance today.

Leonard J. Waks earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1968 and his doctorate in organizational psychology from Temple University, Philadelphia in 1984. He has taught philosophy and education at Purdue University, Indiana, Stanford University, California, Pennsylvania State University and Temple University. He is the author of Technology's School (1995) and Education 2.0 (2013), and editor of Listening to Teach (2015), as well as more than 100 journal articles and scholarly book chapters. He was the co-founder and program director of the National Technological Literacy Conferences (1985-90), co-director of the National Endowment for Humanities sponsored Summer Institute on Rethinking Technology: Philosophy of Technology since 1945, and the principal investigator on research and training grants from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education. Waks is currently president of the John Dewey Society and conference director of the Centennial Conference on Democracy and Education, sponsored by the Spencer Foundation. Andrea R. English is Chancellor's Fellow in Philosophy of Education at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked in teacher education and graduate education in three countries, Germany (where she earned her doctorate), Canada and now the UK. She is author of Discontinuity in Learning: Dewey, Herbart, and Education as Transformation (Cambridge, 2013) and several publications in international journals and edited volumes. Her research focuses on dialogue, listening and critical thinking, and the moral dimensions of teaching and learning. She is on the Board of Directors of the John Dewey Society and leads the Edinburgh Branch of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, as well as an international research group on listening in education Listening Study Group. She is a principal investigator for a project on listening in teaching linking to local schools, sponsored by the Spencer Foundation.