Democracy and Education Reconsidered: Dewey After One Hundred Years

Democracy and Education Reconsidered highlights the continued relevance of John Dewey s Democracy and Education while also examining the need to reconstruct and re-contextualize Dewey s educational philosophy for our time. The authors propose ways of revising Dewey s thought in light of the challenges facing contemporary education and society, and address other themes not touched upon heavily in Dewey s work, such as racism, feminism, post-industrial capitalism, and liquid modernity. As a final component, the authors integrate Dewey s philosophy with more recent trends in scholarship, including pragmatism, post-structuralism, and the works of other key philosophers and scholars.