John Dewey Liberty and the Pedagogy of Disposition /

• Main Author: Baldacchino, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

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 a...

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.