John Dewey

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/27/2022
  

  The Classic Model of Education and Democracy Can't Address Today's School Politics

  by Steven Mintz

  The idea of education serving democracy by producing informed citizens is tested by the lack of agreement about what that goal means. Can the competing claims on the education system be reconciled? 

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• 4/18/2021
  

  What Do John Dewey's Century-Old Thoughts on Anti-Asian Bigotry Teach Us?

  by Charles F. Howlett

  A century ago, the American philosopher and educator took a sabattical to China and concluded that, if encouraged to learn about other cultures, White Americans could be brought to acceptance of Asian Americans and other immigrants as equal participants in democracy. COVID-inspired bigotry shows this dream remains unrealized.

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• 8-10-14
  

  Did Mexico Reshape the American Civil Rights Movement?

  by Ruben Flores

  Mexico, it turns out, shaped America just as America shaped Mexico. And it did this by adopting John Dewey's Pragmatism.

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• 2-24-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Progressive Faith

  by Horace Dewey

  In which our narrator considers the curiously broad appeal of his namesake.