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Title Dewey and education in the 21st century : fighting back / edited by Ruth Heilbronn, Christine Doddington, Rupert Higham.

Publication Info. Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
©2018

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front Cover; Dewey and Education in The 21st Century: Fighting Back; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor Biographies; Contributor Biographies; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Figures; Editors' Introduction: The Book, the Conference and Fighting Back; Introduction; Part One -- Dewey and Technology; Part Two -- Dewey and Embodiment; Part Three -- Democracy and Development; Epilogue; References; Part 1 Dewey, Experience and Technology; Chapter 1 Preserving Rich Experience in the Digital Age; Introduction; Framing Experience; Like Clockwork: Digitally Enriched Experience in Action.
Framing the Work in Broader Contexts; Lasting Impact of Experience; A Framework for Experience-Based, Technology-Enhanced Thinking; Tool Selection and Use; Closing Thoughts: Is This the Right Way to Use Technology?; References; Chapter 2 The Emergence of Makerspaces, Hackerspaces and Fab Labs: Dewey's Democratic Communities of the Twenty-first Century?; Introduction; Formally or Naturally Occurring Education; Newer Forms of Space -- The Makerspace; Case Study; The Nature of Learning and a Space to 'Be'; Discussion and Conclusion; References.
Chapter 3 Constructing Creative Democracy at School by Reading the Classics: A Dialogue between Martha Nussbaum and John Dewey; Introduction; On Antigone and Nussbaum; On Antigone, Dewey and Democracy; An Educational Experience of Creative Democracy with Antigone; References; Part 2 Dewey, Experience and Bodies; Chapter 4 Dewey and the Alexander Technique: Lessons in Mind-Body Learning; Introduction; Body, Mind and Thinking; John Dewey and F. Matthias Alexander; Embodied Learning via the AT; Habit and Learning; Unreliable Sensory Appreciation; The Technique as a Process of Self-Development.
Experiential Somaesthetic Practice-Immediacy; The Challenge in Bodily-Led Engagement with the World; Flexibility in Habit and Environment; Conclusion; References; Part 3 Dewey, Experience, Democracy and Education; Chapter 7 Dewey and the Democratic Curriculum; Introduction; Democratic Education and the Academic/Vocational Divide; Standards and the Curriculum; Stakeholders and the Curriculum; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 Dewey Anticipates Habermas's Paradigm of Communication: The Critique of Individualism and the Basis for Moral Authority in Democracy and Education; Introduction.
Summary This book makes a strong case for the abiding relevance of Dewey's notion of learning through experience, with a community of others, and what this implies for democratic 21st century education. Curricular and policy contexts in Spain, Cameroon, the US and the UK, explore what reading Dewey contributes to contemporary education studies.
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Subject Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Education -- Philosophy.
Education -- Philosophy.
Experiential learning.
Experiential learning.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Heilbronn, Ruth, editor.
Doddington, Christine, editor.
Higham, Rupert, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Dewey and education in the 21st century. First edition. Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018 9781787436268 (OCoLC)1037354281
ISBN 9781787436251 (electronic book)
178743625X (electronic book)
9781787439603 (electronic book)
1787439607 (electronic book)
9781787436268
1787436268