1st Edition
Democratic Education and the Teacher-As-Prophet Exploring the Religious Work of Schools
By Jeffery Dunn
Copyright 2019
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume aims to reveal how Dewey’s notion of the religious—understood as faith in the human relational condition—offers a way to think differently about the aims and purposes of education. After exploring the effects of neoliberal conceptions of schooling against broader democratic forms of education, this book suggests that Dewey’s vision of the "teacher-as-prophet" is a useful model for... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Problem of Neoliberalism in Education
Chapter 2: Religion in Schools as a Solution
Chapter 3: John Dewey and the ‘Religious’ Work of Schools
Chapter 4: The Teacher as Prophet
Chapter 5: The Prophetic Work of the Teacher
Conclusion
Appendix A: Neoliberal Tenets
Appendix B: Dewey’s Terminology
Biography
Jeffery W. Dunn received a PhD (2017) in Leadership and Policy: Philosophy of Education from the Ohio State University, USA.
