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  title info:
    title: John Dewey
    sub title: Liberty and the Pedagogy of Disposition
  name:
    name part: Baldacchino, John.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 97 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents John Dewey’s work as a claim to the human potentials found in experience, the imagination and the possibilities that emerge from our disposition towards liberty. It details Dewey’s work as a critical junction marked by the quandary of schooling and culture, and where learning is also positioned beyond the boundaries of educational institutions. The book first examines Dewey in his various contexts, influences and life experiences, including his relationship with Hegelian philosophy, Emersonian transcendentalism, Darwin’s method of scientific experimentation, and his deep bond with his first wife Alice Chipman and their work in the Laboratory School. It then revisits Dewey’s approach to politics and education within contemporary debates on education, learning and the School. This discussion takes stock of what does a diverse and plural society mean to us today, at a time that remains challenged by the politics of class, race, gender and sexuality. Dewey’s work has a profound bearing on our understanding of these challenges. Thus to read and talk Dewey is to engage with a conversation with Dewey the philosopher who poses an array of questions, ranging from the way we feel (aesthetics), behave (ethics), think (logic), live as a community (politics) and how we learn (education). In addition, the book also takes Dewey’s concept of experimentation into a discussion of unlearning and deschooling through the arts and aesthetics education. Offering a thought-provoking dialogue with Dewey’s philosophy, this book recognizes the contradictory nature of learning and extends it to the open horizons of experience. By way of discussing the various aspects of Dewey’s approach to organization, policy making and the relationship between education and business, it repositions Dewey in contemporary political and educational contexts, exploring the possibility for education to be free and yet rigorous enough to help us engage with forms of knowledge by which we negotia…
  table of contents: Introduction, Gently Roaring.- 1. What’s Deweyan? -- 2. Liberty’s practice -- 3. Open philosophy -- 4. Knower makers -- 5. Growing socially -- 6. Education’s art -- 7. Schooled quandaries -- 8. Learning to be.
  note: by John Baldacchino.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 370.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Education
  identifier: 9789400778474
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7847-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 131211
    record change date: 20151120192210.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-7847-4