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 […]
Call for Proposals: Journal of School & Society
The John Dewey Society and the Journal of School & Society announce: A Call for Public Scholarship for Issue #7.1: What does decolonization look like in education and beyond? We invite interested authors to explore the coloniality of today’s education, as well as the colonial compositions of local ideals about education. Submissions should be received […]