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"This is a profound meditation on the most intimate connections between democracy and education. Taking his cue from John Dewey's masterwork Democracy and Education, Shook encourages his readers to consider how a vital educational agenda can foster reconstruction of the norms of justice, moral behavior, and religious belief in a time of debilitating economic and racial divisions." - Larry A. Hickman, Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University, USA
"In this elegantly written and masterfully researched book, a leading contemporary pragmatist investigates how John Dewey saw education as the 'fundamental engine of democracy.' John Shook discusses Dewey's faith in the moral and ideal nature of democracy as a cooperative and communal educational venture. Democratic commitments go beyond education as simply schooling for Dewey. In a particularly brilliant chapter, Shook demonstrates how Dewey's democratic humanism, as the clear consciousness of a moral life, forms a powerful educational argument about the role of punishment in a democracy. I recommend this book highly as a major accomplishment in Dewey scholarship and will assign it in my graduate classes." - AG Rud, Distinguished Professor, College of Education, Washington State University, USA
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Book Title: Dewey’s Social Philosophy
Book Subtitle: Democracy as Education
Authors: John R. Shook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454782
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46734-8Published: 23 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50001-7Published: 23 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45478-2Published: 17 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 189
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Education, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political History, Democracy