by Deron Boyles John Dewey’s Imaginative Vision of Teaching explores key philosophical topics in John Dewey’s work, including epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, and relates them to teacher practice and education policy. Each chapter begins with theory and ends with practical implications. While there are numerous books on Dewey, there are relatively few that connect his […]
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NEW BOOK: Learning How to Hope: Reviving Democracy through our Schools and Civil Society
Learning How to Hope: Reviving Democracy through Schools and Civil Society (Oxford University Press, 2020) by Sarah Stitzlein, Ph.D. Democracy is struggling in America. Citizens increasingly feel cynical about our system and doubt they can influence public policy. Distrustful of other Americans and elected officials, some are even turning to authoritarian alternatives. Hyper-partisanship and recent […]
NEW BOOK: Islam as Education
Islam as Education: Pedagogies of Pilgrimage, Prophecy, and Jihad by Aaron J. Ghiloni Motivated by the intellectual historian Shahab Ahmed’s observation that “the history of Islamic paideia has yet to be written,” Islam as Education explores multiple forms that the search for knowledge and the transmission of wisdom have taken in Islam, focusing on the […]
NEW BOOK: The Oxford Handbook of Dewey
The Oxford Handbook of DeweyEdited by Steven Fesmire John Dewey was the foremost philosophical figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century America. He is still the most academically cited Anglophone philosopher of the past century, and is among the most cited Americans of any century. In this comprehensive volume spanning thirty-five chapters, leading […]