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Jane McDonnell – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
Just over a decade on from a spike of interest in Jacques Rancière's writing within educational philosophy and theory, I revisit his interventions on democracy and education to make the case for (re)engaging with Rancière's writing "now" to address important questions about contemporary education policy, the role of schools in democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Democracy, Intervention, Educational Philosophy
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Matusov, Eugene – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2023
My essay aims to develop my authorial map-account of Martin Duberman's various educational paradigms manifest in his experimental seminars at Princeton University, Hunter College, and Lehman College CUNY, 1966-1971 (and beyond) that I abstracted from his claims about his innovative educational teaching. I tried to develop a terrain of educational…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language), Educational Philosophy, Democracy
Lafer, Stephen – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2022
The American educational system, because it is based in behaviorist rather than progressivist philosophy, has not well-served the development of a citizenry capable of effective participation in the democratic decision-making process, the remedy being the progressivist methods described in the later chapters of Progressive Education for Democratic…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Democracy, Democratic Values, Citizen Participation
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Kauppi, Veli-Mikko; Drerup, Johannes – Theory and Research in Education, 2021
There is a steady line of academic discourse around the topic of controversial issues and how to approach them in and through education. In this line of discourse, discussion is widely seen as a primary method of democratic education that is especially suitable to foster its major educational aims, such as tolerance, reciprocal respect, or…
Descriptors: Discussion, Inquiry, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teaching Methods
Furman, Cara E.; Traugh, Cecelia E. – Teachers College Press, 2021
What does it mean to teach for human dignity? How does one do so? This practical book shows how the leaders at four urban public schools used a process called Descriptive Inquiry to create democratic schools that promote and protect human dignity. The authors argue that teachers must attend to who a child is and find a way to create classrooms…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Human Dignity, Inquiry, Democracy
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Johan Samuelsson; Åsa Melin; Christina Olin-Scheller; Niklas Gericke – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Teachers' implementation of and attitudes to school reforms and overriding pedagogical ideals have long been a topic of debate and research. In this article, we centre on teachers' descriptions of how progressive teaching was conducted as well as on the teachers' reasons for implementing such teaching in the 1940s. This study is based on written…
Descriptors: Educational History, Trend Analysis, Progressive Education, Foreign Countries
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Julie A. Reuben – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
Fear for the future of democracy in the 1930s and 1940s led university educators to redefine the purpose of general education as preparation for democratic citizenship. This mobilized social scientists to engage in curricular reform and experiment with progressive pedagogical practices in new general education courses. These courses have been…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Democracy, Higher Education, United States History
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Retter, Hein – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2018
In 1935 a book was published in Germany with essays by John Dewey, the most famous American philosopher, and his equally internationally-renowned pupil, William H. Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick's essay, "The Project Method", published in 1918 (September), had triggered a storm of enthusiasm in the USA to convert the curriculum of public schools…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Educational History
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Samuelsson, Johan; Gericke, Niklas; Olin-Scheller, Christina; Melin, Åsa – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
The aim of the article is to deepen the knowledge of progressivism and how it was manifested in practice in Swedish secondary schools from a teacher perspective before it was prescribed in policy during the reforms of the 1950s. In the current educational debate, progressivism is blamed by some for being the root of a permissive style of education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Progressive Education, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers
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Mooney Simmie, Geraldine; Edling, Silvia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
The needs of a globalized economy are rapidly changing what is legitimated as school knowledge and values, and calling up new understandings of teachers' role in stimulating democratic spaces. We have termed this "Teachers' Democratic Assignment." We examine changing notions of teachers' democratic assignment in Ireland and Sweden using…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Democracy, Teacher Education, Educational Policy
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Thorburn, Malcolm – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
Interest in progressive education ideas has often been accompanied by advocacy for greater use of interdisciplinary and holistic learning approaches, as these are considered beneficial in conceptual, curriculum, and pedagogical terms. The paper reviews the possibilities for progress on this basis and contextualises the paper around three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Progressive Education
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Mahamud Angulo, Kira; Groves, Tamar; Milito Barone, Cecilia Cristina; Hernández Laina, Yovana – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This article explores visions of war and peace in the education system during the Spanish transition to democracy. During those years, the Spanish state was faced with the challenge of leaving its authoritarian political past behind and forging a democratic civic culture. As the concepts of war and peace are inextricably linked to those of state…
Descriptors: Civics, War, Peace, Democracy
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Coulter, Xenia; Herman, Lee – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
The United States (US) has since its inception considered the education of its citizens as critical for preserving democracy. The recent attractiveness of autocratic leaders, not only in the US but across the world, raises questions about the dominant educational model now in place. We argue that the authoritarian and business-oriented structure…
Descriptors: Democracy, Authoritarianism, Teaching Methods, Governance
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Pouwels, Jan; Biesta, Gert – Education Sciences, 2017
This paper is about the notion of conflict in the work of John Dewey. Special attention is given to "Democracy and Education" (1916) because of its centennial and its acclaimed status of "magnum opus". After depicting "conflicts as gadflies" that stir thinking--reflection and ingenuity--and relating it to Socrates, in…
Descriptors: Conflict, Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Definitions
Nichols, Shannon; Parsons, Jim – Online Submission, 2010
In the face of the century-old call for democracy in education by John Dewey, this paper explores how and why teachers have been systemically removed from efficacy within the educational system in which they live and work. The paper examines historical trends that work to limit teachers' institutional power and become obstacles to teacher voice.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Responsibility, Professional Autonomy, Teaching Methods
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