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Dewey and Education in the 21st Century - Fighting Back (Hardcover)
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Dewey and Education in the 21st Century - Fighting Back (Hardcover)
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This book makes a strong case for the abiding relevance of Dewey's
notion of learning through experience, with a community of others
and what this implies for democratic education in the 21st century.
Its first section addresses the experience of today's generation of
so-called 'digital natives' in terms of how we should now
understand 'knowledge' and how their online experience creates
opportunities and challenges for the curriculum, such as schools
linking internationally to study classical texts; an exposition of
why makerspaces, hackerspaces and Fab Labs might support Dewey's
democratic communities in our time, with on-line affordances of 'a
commons', a space to use imagination and invent and share with
others. The book's second section is original in its focus on the
central Deweyan idea of 'embodiment' with chapters on Dewey and the
Alexander technique and on experiences of Afro-American students,
in public schools, especially those situated in multi-racial,
multi-ethnic countries like the U.S. with deep, racial divides and
tensions. The section ends with a chapter on the somaesthetic,
educational value of learning outside of buildings. A third section
on experience related to democracy and education, has chapters on
Dewey and the democratic curriculum, experience as a preparation
for democracy, communication and the critique of individualism.
Dewey's notion of interest is analyzed and questioned as to whether
it is a sympathetic notion for educational development. With
contributions from Spain, Cameroon, the US and the UK the book
ranges across varied curricular and policy contexts to explore what
reading Dewey can contribute to contemporary education studies.
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