1st Edition
John Dewey's Democracy and Education in an Era of Globalization
Introduction: John Dewey’s Democracy and Education in an Era of Globalization Mordechai Gordon and Andrea R. English
1. Globalization, Democracy, and Social Movements: The educational potential of activism Kathy Hytten
2. Complexity and Reductionism in Educational Philosophy—John Dewey’s Critical Approach in ‘Democracy and Education’ Reconsidered Kersten Reich, Jim Garrison and Stefan Neubert
3. Not ‘democratic education’ but ‘democracy and education’: Reconsidering Dewey’s oft misunderstood introduction to the philosophy of education John Quay
4. Thinking my way back to you: John Dewey on the communication and formation of concepts Megan J. Laverty
5. John Dewey and the Role of the Teacher in a Globalized World: Imagination, empathy, and ‘third voice’ Andrea R. English
6. American philosophy and its Eastern strains: Crisis, resilience, and self-transcendence Naoko Saito
7. Why Should Scholars Keep Coming Back to John Dewey? Mordechai Gordon
Biography
Mordechai Gordon is a Professor of Education in the School of Education at Quinnipiac University, USA. His areas of specialization are the philosophy of education, democratic education, and humor. He is the author of six books and numerous articles in scholarly journals such as Educational Theory, Journal of Teacher Education, Oxford Review of Education, and Journal of Aesthetic Education.
Andrea R. English is Chancellor’s Fellow in Philosophy of Education at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is author of Discontinuity in Learning: Dewey, Herbart, and Education as Transformation (2013), co-editor of John Dewey's Democracy and Education: A Centennial Handbook (2017), and her research on teaching and learning has been published in a range of international journals and edited volumes.
