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Education, Democracy and the Moral Life (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Education, Democracy and the Moral Life (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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This volume has its origin in the Francis T. Villemain Memorial
lectures at San Jose State University - a lecture series
established in 1992 to honor the memory of 1 Dean Francis T.
Villemain. All the essays in this volume, with the exception of
those by Gert Biesta, Susan Verducci, and Michael Katz, were
developed from l- tures given as part of the series. The general
rubric of the lectures was "democracy, education, and the moral
life" - a title reflecting Villemain's lifelong love of the work of
John Dewey whose preface to his famous work in 1916, Democracy and
Education, suggested that the purpose of education was to develop
democratic ci- zens, citizens infused with the spirit of democracy
and the capacity to think and act intelligently within democratic
settings. Of course, for Dewey, democracy was not to be conceived
of as merely a political form of government, but as a shared form
of social life, one that was inclusive rather than exclusive and
one that was capable of adapting to the changing features of
contemporary social and political reality. Francis T. Villemain's
appreciation for the intersections of the values of dem- racy,
education, and the moral life was heightened by his doctoral work
at Teachers College, Columbia University in the 1950s - where
Dewey's legacy remained a powerful one. But it also continued
during his career at Southern Illinois University where he
collaborated in compiling and editing the collected works of John
Dewey.
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