ABSTRACT

Experiencing Dewey: Insights for Today’s Classroom offers an inspiring introduction to one of the most seminal figures in the field of education. In this collection of essays, contemporary authors consider their favorite quotations from John Dewey’s bountiful works and share how Dewey has impacted their teaching practices. Responses are organized around the themes introduced in the first edition: active learning, the educative experience, critical thinking, inquiry and education, and democratic citizenship, plus a new section on accountability added for the second edition. Quotes and responses are kept deliberately brief as an effective way of inviting readers to reflect on and experience Dewey.

Co-published with Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, Experiencing Dewey remains a powerful resource for current and aspiring teachers. This thoroughly updated edition also includes online resources for teacher educators to help facilitate the book’s use in higher education courses. 

 

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|37 pages

Accountability

chapter 2|2 pages

Tracing Anew the Process of Learning

chapter 3|3 pages

Responsibility, Not Accountability

The Experiential Artistry of Teaching

chapter 4|3 pages

An Alternative Image of Data

Not What but Where

chapter 5|2 pages

Who is Accountable?

chapter 6|2 pages

Art and Accountability

part II|39 pages

Active Learning

chapter 12|4 pages

A Spectator's Version of Knowledge

chapter 13|3 pages

Making Informed Judgments

chapter 16|3 pages

Listening for the Gentle Whisper

chapter 17|3 pages

Work in School

chapter 21|2 pages

Effort

The Outgrowth of Individual Interest

part III|25 pages

Critical Thinking

chapter 22|2 pages

The Dangers of Imagination

chapter 24|3 pages

Transcending False Dichotomies

Confronting One of Life's Consistently Compelling Challenges

chapter 27|3 pages

Dewey's Freedom of Intelligence

chapter 28|2 pages

Unexamined Presumptions

part IV|47 pages

Democratic Citizenship

chapter 29|3 pages

Teaching Democracy for Life

chapter 30|3 pages

Education for a Changing World

chapter 31|2 pages

John Dewey and the American Creed

chapter 33|4 pages

The Best and Wisest Parent

chapter 34|3 pages

Building a Community of Inquirers

chapter 37|3 pages

Realizing a Common Good

chapter 39|5 pages

The Societal Purpose of Education

chapter 40|3 pages

Foundations of Deweyan Democracy

Human Nature, Intelligence, and Cooperative Inquiry

chapter 41|3 pages

Why we Forget

Liberty, Memories, and Seeking Simple Answers

part V|28 pages

The Educative Experience

chapter 43|3 pages

Growth

The Consummate Open-Ended Aspiration

chapter 45|3 pages

Learning in and Out of School

Bridging the Cultural Gap

chapter 46|2 pages

The Child and the Curriculum

Two Limits That Define a Single Process

chapter 47|3 pages

The Reconstruction of Experience

chapter 48|2 pages

The Teacher-Artist

part VI|22 pages

Inquiry and Education

chapter 50|3 pages

The Power of an Ideal

chapter 51|4 pages

Dogma, Democracy, and Education

chapter 53|3 pages

Imagination of Ideal Ends

chapter 54|2 pages

The Teacher as Theorist and Lover

chapter 55|2 pages

Autonomous Education

Free to Determine Its Own Ends