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A Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education"
D. C. Phillips
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Description for A Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education"
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
This year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey's magnum opus, Democracy and Education. Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and dare we say it a little dry. In this charming and often funny companion, noted philosopher of education D. C. Phillips goes chapter by chapter to bring Dewey to a twenty-first-century audience. Drawing on over fifty years of thinking about this book and on his own experiences as an educator he lends it renewed clarity and a personal touch that proves its lasting importance. Phillips bridges several critical pitfalls of Democracy and Education that often prevent contemporary readers from fully understanding it. Where Dewey sorely needs a detailed example to illustrate a point and the times are many Phillips steps in, presenting cases from his own classroom experiences. Where Dewey casually refers to the works of people like Hegel, Herbart, and Locke common knowledge, apparently, in 1916 Phillips fills in the necessary background. And where Dewey gets convoluted or is even flat-out wrong, Phillips does what few other scholars would do: he takes Dewey to task. The result is a lively accompaniment that helps us celebrate and be enriched by some of the most important ideas ever offered in education.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226408378
SKU
V9780226408378
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About D. C. Phillips
D. C. Phillips is professor emeritus of education and philosophy at Stanford University, where he has also served as associate dean and interim dean of the Graduate School of Education. He is the author or editor of many books including, most recently, the Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy.
Reviews for A Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education"
Eminently readable and engaging (unlike Dewey, at least for many first-time readers). It is comprehensive, covering all twenty-six chapters of Democracy and Education. It is critical when it senses Dewey's theses and arguments need more work or are obscure or just plain incomprehensible. And it provides suggestions for further thought. . . . I imagine the book to be the most helpful guide I have yet seen to introduce new readers to Dewey's text. It is a text that I will refer to in my undergraduate classes on Dewey as supplementary reading for Democracy and Education.
Educational Theory Phillips constantly situates [Democracy and Education] within the whole corpus of Dewey's writings, focusing on the development and unfolding of concepts, ideas and lines of reasoning, as well as their interconnections, all of which rendering this Companion a useful support to introduce novice scholars to the richness of Deweyan philosophy as well as to maintain confirmed admirers of Dewey through an acknowledgment of the insights that he offers to an understanding of contemporary challenges.
Educational Review A Companion to John Dewey's Democracy and Education was published in 2016, over one hundred years after the publication of Dewey's Democracy and Education, a highly regarded text in the field of educational foundations. The companion book to this text was not written to replace or summarize Dewey's text, but rather to serve as a companion in supporting present day readers. The author, D.C. Phillips, through his own experiences as an educator and philosopher of education, provides discussions on the content of each chapter of Dewey's text. He gives examples from his own teaching experience as part of these discussions for the purpose of better understanding the discourse of Dewey's Democracy and Education, which was primarily tied to the context and common knowledge of that era. These examples help to translate and clarify how Dewey's principles of equity and justice can apply to schools and society today. Highly recommended.
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Educational Theory Phillips constantly situates [Democracy and Education] within the whole corpus of Dewey's writings, focusing on the development and unfolding of concepts, ideas and lines of reasoning, as well as their interconnections, all of which rendering this Companion a useful support to introduce novice scholars to the richness of Deweyan philosophy as well as to maintain confirmed admirers of Dewey through an acknowledgment of the insights that he offers to an understanding of contemporary challenges.
Educational Review A Companion to John Dewey's Democracy and Education was published in 2016, over one hundred years after the publication of Dewey's Democracy and Education, a highly regarded text in the field of educational foundations. The companion book to this text was not written to replace or summarize Dewey's text, but rather to serve as a companion in supporting present day readers. The author, D.C. Phillips, through his own experiences as an educator and philosopher of education, provides discussions on the content of each chapter of Dewey's text. He gives examples from his own teaching experience as part of these discussions for the purpose of better understanding the discourse of Dewey's Democracy and Education, which was primarily tied to the context and common knowledge of that era. These examples help to translate and clarify how Dewey's principles of equity and justice can apply to schools and society today. Highly recommended.
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