Title John Dewey : liberty and the pedagogy of disposition / John Baldacchino

Published Dordrecht : Springer, [2014] ©2014

Table of Contents
1.	What's Deweyan?					1
1.1.	Dewey, a Deweyan?					2
1.2.	Reading Dewey					6
1.3.	Talking Dewey					8
1.4.	Deschooling Dewey?					10
2.	Liberty's Practice					13
2.1.	Being Liberal					15
2.2.	Temporal Relativity					18
2.3.	Philosophical Edification					21
3.	Open Philosophy					25
3.1.	Thinking, Action					26
3.2.	Habit, Disposition					30
3.3.	Facts, Necessity					31
3.4.	Openness, Communication					34
4.	Knower Makers					37
4.1.	Eddie Spinola, Mr. Spock					38
4.2.	Made Facts					40
4.3.	Abounding Darkness					42
4.4.	More Than					44
5.	Growing Socially					47
5.1.	Unnecessary Education					48
5.2.	Growth, Plasticity					50
5.3.	Violent Certitude					52
5.4.	Bildung's Travails					54
5.5.	None Pregiven					57
6.	Education's Art					61
6.1.	Production, Daily Living					63
6.2.	Value, Instrument					66
6.3.	Risk, Ends					68
7.	Schooled Quandaries					71
7.1.	Standardized Merit					73
7.2.	Democracy's Proviso					75
7.3.	Schools, Societies					77
8.	Learning to Be					81
8.1.	Decentering Learning					82
8.2.	Education's Waste					85
8.3.	Black Mountain					88
8.4.	Pedagogical Dispositions					91
	References					93

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Description 1 online resource (97 pages) Series SpringerBriefs in education. Key thinkers in education, 2211-9388 SpringerBriefs in education. Contents What's Deweyan? -- Liberty's practice -- Open philosophy -- Knower makers -- Growing socially -- Education's art -- Schooled quandaries -- Learning to be -- References Summary "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 negotiate and understand the world"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Dewey, John, 1859-1952 SUBJECT Dewey, John, 1859-1952 fast Subject Education -- Philosophy. Education. EDUCATION -- Essays. EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. EDUCATION -- Reference. Droit. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Education Education -- Philosophy Form Electronic book ISBN 9789400778474 9400778473 1306543274 9781306543279

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