ABSTRACT
A Deweyan apprenticeship is grounded in Dewey's ideas of impulsion, growth, and democracy as a way of life, not merely a political system. This chapter discusses the impulsion that characterizes human neonates. This impulsion is the foundation of the Deweyan apprenticeship that is best nurtured and practiced under the conditions of democracy, as Dewey described them. The chapter illustrates how this apprenticeship is required for democracy and how its central characteristics are essential for democratic citizenship. It describes how apprenticeship is part of our evolutionary and cultural inheritance. The chapter argues that apprenticeship and Dewey's idea of democracy as a way of life are made for each other. It claims that apprenticeship will be required for white people to carry out this reconstruction. Apprenticeship indicates that white apprentices must inhibit their initial reactions to any situation as they think through, using the insights of people of color, how they may have misunderstood it.
