Dewey's Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform by Lee

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"One of the most startlingly impressive aspects of the ... text is that the authors have recast Dewey's work by a close reading and re-analysis of his legacy. In so doing, they have re-energized the progressive intent in his original work and provided a contemporary focus for a renewal of the progressive agenda in education. I found the argument compelling and exciting and, in my view, the authors have fully succeeded in identifying key tasks for a role for education in promoting participatory democracy." Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Director of the Center for Urban Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo "Dewey's Dream's strength is its contribution to a re-visioning of higher education's democratic commitments...Perhaps the most important less from [Dewey's Dream] is that it is the generation of new knowledge that fundamentally demands engagement in the 21st century...This is Dewey's dream fulfilled." The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning "Dewey's Dream is both a tribute to the philosopher and a critical assessment of his work...For any university educator or administrator interested in facilitating collaborative community problem-solving projects part 2 should be required reading for its presentation of concrete strategies...This book could serve as a short, focused (albeit biased) introduction to [Dewey's] philosophy of education, and it would certainly provoke in-class debates about the extent to which Dewey's influence can still be found in public school classrooms today." The "Journal of Educational Research" review read, "Dewey's Dream is intellectually refreshing, provocative, persuasive, jargon free and downright practical. The authors organized the text to model for readers how to intertwine theory and practice to reveal ways that schools can promote participatory democracy. And John Dewey would be proud." The Journal of Educational Research "[The authors] offer their book as 'a democratic manifesto'...[T]he authors quote Dewey and secondary sources at length to explain Dewey's ideas about participatory democracy and the unfulfilled role of democratic schooling in its realization. Their aim...is hortatory." Political Science Quarterly "[A] short and lively book...I have great respect for the practices, sites, and thinking of Harkavy, Benson, and Puckett. A particularly crucial contribution in this work and earlier writings is to raise the centrality of living places to civic attention." The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement "Dewey's Dream is, they disarmingly say, a manifesto, aiming to be 'agenda-setting and movement-initiating, not thesis-proving,' and draws on the wealth of practical experience building community school partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania...The second part [of the book] is a fascinating discussion of a particular model for this [community school] movement, concentrating on the West Philadelphia community schools project, of which these authors are legitimately proud. There are particularly interesting brief discussions of the way university and school teaching, research, and community engagement can complement one another in programs on nutrition and health care." Perspectives on Politics "Dewey's Dream has great merit. It provides an engagingly written overview of the educational philosophy and action of John Dewey...It also places the current movement of academic civic engagement...into proper historical and intellectual perspective... It should be read by all those interested in the role of higher education in modern society - and by those who should be." Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice "[A] thoughtful and engaging collaborative manifesto...which [seeks] to bring Dewey's thought to bear on the current problems facing the academy and the good society." Gregory A. McBrayer -The book was also the basis of a symposium in The Good Society journal, vol. 17, No. 2, 2008 "Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett have provided us with a provocative discussion of a significant issue... One likely benefit of Dewey's Dream will be that more people will come to realize the need to challenge the unquestioned assumption that Dewey's views are unassailable... For no reason other than the challenges that are leveled against Dewey's views, Dewey's Dream should be read by university reformers, educational philosophers, and teacher educators." - The History of Education Quarterly, February 2009

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Discusses how to realize Dewey

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Discuses how to realize Dewey's vision of making state schooling the seedbed of a democratic society

Author Biography

Lee Benson is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Ira Harkavy is Associate Vice President and Director of the Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania John Puckett is Associate Professor in the Policy, Management, and Evaluation Division of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He is the co-author of Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School: Education as if Citizenship Mattered.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Dewey's Lifelong Crusade for Participatory Democracy Chapter One Michigan Beginnings, 1884-1888 1. 1. Dewey's First Attempt to Combine Theory and Practice Chapter Two Dewey at Chicago, 1894-1904 2.1. President Harper and Chicago's Department of Pedagogy 2.2. Plato's "Republic" and Dewey's "Philosophy of Education" 2.3. Participatory Democratic Societies and Participatory Democratic Schooling Systems 2.4. Dewey's Laboratory School 2.5. Wilhelm Wundt's Psychological Laboratory and Dewey's Scientistic Laboratory School 2.6. Jane Addams, Hull House, and Dewey's Prophetic Essay, "The School as Social Centre" 2.7. The Schooling System as the Strategic Subsystem of Modern Societies Chapter Three Dewey Leaves Chicago for Columbia 3.1. Dewey Abandons Any Attempt To Integrate Schooling Theory and Schooling Practice 3.2. Dewey vs. Lippmann: Participatory Democracy and Face-to Face Neighborly Communities 3.3. Democratic Theory and the Construction of Democratic Cosmopolitan Neighborly Communities Chapter Four Elsie Clapp's Contributions To Community Schools 4.1. Maurice Seay and Community Schools 4.2. The Rise and Decline of the Community School Movement After 1945 Chapter Five Penn and the Third Revolution In American Higher Education 5.1. Increasing Penn's Engagement With Local Public Schools As a Practical Example of Democratic Devolution Revolution 5.2. An Innovative Strategy To Achieve A Democratic Devolution Revolution 5.3. Penn and West Philadelphia Public Schools: Learning By Reflective Doing Chapter Six The Center for Community Partnerships 6.1. Changing Penn's Undergraduate Curriculum To Help Change West Philadelphia Public Schools 6.2. Community Healthcare As A Complex Strategic Problem To "Do Good" And Help Bring About "One University" 6.3. Democratic Partnerships and Communal Participatory Action Research 6.4. President Rodin's Inspiring Vision of Penn and West Philadelphia As Constituting A "Beloved Community" 6.5. President Gutmann Proclaims a "Penn Compact" To "Serve Humanity And Society" Chapter Seven The University Civic Responsibility Idea Becomes An International Movement 7.1. An International Academic Consortium for the Advancement of Democracy Chapter Eight John Dewey, the Coalition for Community Schools, and Developing a Participatory Democratic American Society Notes Acknowledgements

Review

"One of the most startlingly impressive aspects of the ... text is that the authors have recast Dewey's work by a close reading and re-analysis of his legacy. In so doing, they have re-energized the progressive intent in his original work and provided a contemporary focus for a renewal of the progressive agenda in education. I found the argument compelling and exciting and, in my view, the authors have fully succeeded in identifying key tasks for a role for education in promoting participatory democracy." Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Director of the Center for Urban Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo "Dewey's Dream's strength is its contribution to a re-visioning of higher education's democratic commitments...Perhaps the most important less from [Dewey's Dream] is that it is the generation of new knowledge that fundamentally demands engagement in the 21st century...This is Dewey's dream fulfilled." The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning "Dewey's Dream is both a tribute to the philosopher and a critical assessment of his work...For any university educator or administrator interested in facilitating collaborative community problem-solving projects part 2 should be required reading for its presentation of concrete strategies...This book could serve as a short, focused (albeit biased) introduction to [Dewey's] philosophy of education, and it would certainly provoke in-class debates about the extent to which Dewey's influence can still be found in public school classrooms today." The "Journal of Educational Research" review read, "Dewey's Dream is intellectually refreshing, provocative, persuasive, jargon free and downright practical. The authors organized the text to model for readers how to intertwine theory and practice to reveal ways that schools can promote participatory democracy. And John Dewey would be proud." The Journal of Educational Research "[The authors] offer their book as 'a democratic manifesto'...[T]he authors quote Dewey and secondary sources at length to explain Dewey's ideas about participatory democracy and the unfulfilled role of democratic schooling in its realization. Their aim...is hortatory." Political Science Quarterly "[A] short and lively book...I have great respect for the practices, sites, and thinking of Harkavy, Benson, and Puckett. A particularly crucial contribution in this work and earlier writings is to raise the centrality of living places to civic attention." The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement "Dewey's Dream is, they disarmingly say, a manifesto, aiming to be 'agenda-setting and movement-initiating, not thesis-proving,' and draws on the wealth of practical experience building community school partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania...The second part [of the book] is a fascinating discussion of a particular model for this [community school] movement, concentrating on the West Philadelphia community schools project, of which these authors are legitimately proud. There are particularly interesting brief discussions of the way university and school teaching, research, and community engagement can complement one another in programs on nutrition and health care." Perspectives on Politics "Dewey's Dream has great merit. It provides an engagingly written overview of the educational philosophy and action of John Dewey...It also places the current movement of academic civic engagement...into proper historical and intellectual perspective... It should be read by all those interested in the role of higher education in modern society - and by those who should be." Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice "[A] thoughtful and engaging collaborative manifesto...which [seeks] to bring Dewey's thought to bear on the current problems facing the academy and the good society." Gregory A. McBrayer -The book was also the basis of a symposium in The Good Society journal, vol. 17, No. 2, 2008 "Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett have provided us with a provocative discussion of a significant issue... One likely benefit of Dewey's Dream will be that more people will come to realize the need to challenge the unquestioned assumption that Dewey's views are unassailable... For no reason other than the challenges that are leveled against Dewey's views, Dewey's Dream should be read by university reformers, educational philosophers, and teacher educators." - The History of Education Quarterly, February 2009

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"One of the most startlingly impressive aspects of the ... text is that the authors have recast Dewey's work by a close reading and re-analysis of his legacy. In so doing, they have re-energized the progressive intent in his original work and provided a contemporary focus for a renewal of the progressive agenda in education. I found the argument compelling and exciting and, in my view, the authors have fully succeeded in identifying key tasks for a role for education in promoting participatory democracy." Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Director of the Center for Urban Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo

Details ISBN1592135927 Author John Puckett Short Title DEWEYS DREAM Language English ISBN-10 1592135927 ISBN-13 9781592135929 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2007 Imprint Temple University Press,U.S. Subtitle Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform Place of Publication Philadelphia PA Country of Publication United States Residence UT, US Birth 1948 DOI 10.1604/9781592135929 UK Release Date 2007-03-02 AU Release Date 2007-03-02 NZ Release Date 2007-03-02 US Release Date 2007-03-02 Pages 160 Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. Publication Date 2007-03-02 Alternative 9781592135912 DEWEY 378.001 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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