ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces Dewey's own public engagement with cultural problems through his progressive social-political and educational philosophies. Democracy is far more than a form of government or system of laws, Dewey asserted in a frequently cited passage in Democracy and Education. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The great philosopher of democracy opposed democracy. If it is taken in the neoliberal sense of barely regulated market capitalism in which a position of economic privilege increases political access. The moral meaning of democracy, Dewey said, is found in resolving that the supreme test of all political institutions and industrial arrangements shall be the contribution they make to the all-around growth of every member of society. It is beyond the limited scope to discuss the curricular content and educational materials, but a case study may offer a holistic glimpse of transformative Deweyan pedagogy.
