Bertrand Russell's History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as 'generally
admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America'. This
honourable mention lay partly in his pragmatic theory of meaning,
through which so many baffling philosophical problems were claimed to
have been solved – as well as educational ones. It is in connection
with his educational ideas, however, that Dewey became either famous
or infamous. In the United States he had been seen both as saviour of
American education by those who welcomed a more child-centred
curriculum, and yet as 'worse than Hitler' by those who saw his ideas
as undermining traditional education – an accusation shared by his
detractors in Britain. This account seeks to bring together Dewey's
educational thinking and its frequently forgotten foundations in a
pragmatic theory of meaning. In so doing, the book seeks to show that
John Dewey is 'a philosopher of education for our time'.
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ISBN
9781441124593
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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