1st Edition
Practicing Pragmatism through Progressive Pedagogies A Philosophical Lens for Grounding Classroom Teaching and Research
1. A Simple Intuition 2. Pragmatic Ways and Means 3. The Collaborative Construction of Pragmatic Understandings 4. Developing Pragmatic Capacity 5. Achieving a Pragmatic Pluralism
Biography
Susan Mayer has studied progressive classroom practice as a teacher, teacher educator, and classroom researcher. In her scholarship, she combines pragmatism, classroom discourse research, and developmental learning theory in order to theorize the aims and character of distinctively democratic pedagogical practices.
Susan Mayer has written that rare book that combines first rate scholarship with practical classroom application. She updates pragmatism and progressive pedagogy for the twenty-first century. Written with a light touch for the general educational audience, the book nonetheless provides original and valuable insights for philosophical specialists. —Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech.
Mayer animates philosophical issues by centering her FDE framework: a conceptual and analytical lens into progressive pedagogy. In highlighting the roles that teachers and students assume in the framing of investigative questions and the developing and evaluating of responsive ideas, Mayer also informs questions at the heart of teaching and learning. ––Catherine O’Connor, Boston University
