"The concept of experience by John Dewey revisited: conceiving, feeling and 'enliving'." Dewey takes a few steps towards a differentiation of the concept of experience, such as the distinction between primary and secondary experience, or between ordinary (partial, raw, primitive) experience and complete, aesthetic experience. However, he does not…

Informal home education occurs without much that is generally considered essential for formal education--including curriculum, learning plans, assessments, age related targets or planned and deliberate teaching. Our research into families conducting this kind of education enables us to consider learning away from such imposed structures and to…

One of the interesting aspects of Dewey's early educational thought is his apparent hostility toward children's imaginative pursuits, yet the question of why this antipathy exists remains unanswered. As will become clear, Dewey's hostility towards imaginative activities stemmed from a broad variety of concerns. In some of his earliest work, Dewey…

The Capability Approach (henceforth CA) is in the first place an approach to the evaluation of individual well-being and social welfare. Many disciplines refer to the CA, first and foremost welfare economics, development studies and political philosophy. Educational theory was not among the first disciplines that took notice of the CA, but has a…

Curiously, while the efficacy of the arts for the development of multicultural understandings has long been theorized, empirical studies of this effect have been lacking. This essay recounts our combined empirical and philosophical study of this issue. We explicate the philosophical considerations that shaped the development of the arts course we…

Student-centered pedagogy has been embraced by many feminist practitioners and educational theorists as an antidote to more "traditional" or "masculinist" forms of classroom relations, epistemological constructs, and theories of self. I will show that the margin-center schema, student-centered pedagogy's foundational metaphor, undermines feminist…

Traces the reception of Dewey's work in France through a survey of French educational literature. Notes that although Dewey's educational and philosophical writings are actually indivisible, most French readers were exposed only to parts with relevance to education and teaching, specifically his concept of "learning by doing." (PGS)

Argues that "democratic education," as described in John Dewey's Democracy and Education, creates a tension between individuality and public education, and between spontaneous experiential learning and organized subject-related learning. Considers future problems of a European theory of "democratic education" after Dewey. (PGS)

Dewey's ideas were slower to be accepted in Britain than elsewhere, due to pedagogical, epistemological, social and political factors. Only the pedagogical ideas elicited even minor support in the first half of the century. Developments after 1960 led to widespread implementation of Dewey's principles mainly in the primary education sector.(PGS)

Dewey's ideas of democracy and pragmatism clashed with the monarchial and idealistic patterns of school-practice and pedagogic theory in pre- and post-World War II Germany. Acceptance of Dewey's work was hindered by counterproductive politico-educational interpretations of source material compounded with a lack of hermeneutic assessment of his…

Examines often unrecognized religious assumptions implicit in John Dewey's social philosophy that affected his definition of democracy and influenced his idea of education. Asserts that without an awareness of these religious assumptions, neither Dewey's social philosophy nor his educational theory can be properly understood.(PGS)

Proposes renewal of Dewey to address the gap between the pedagogical commitment to contingency and plurality and the fact that the pedagogical tradition has neutralized contingency and denied its systemic meaning for education. Recognizes that questions regarding education can never be stabilized, but rather should always refer to experience and…

Historiography of education is not only a question of construction but also of selection. In 19th century "history of education" was typically a genre of "great educators", mostly male and only marginally female. This construct is influential up to now, at least in popular contexts of educational reasoning. The article…

Assesses the influence of John Dewey's work on the renewal of European education in the 20th century using examples from the history of Dutch education. Concludes that Dewey's ideas and practices did not have lasting influence on the development of Dutch early childhood education and primary and secondary schools, mostly for reasons unrelated to…

During the first half of the 20th century, Emmy Walser of Switzerland helped to incorporate John Dewey's "free working method" into German-language kindergartens. The kindergartens were previously organized around a rigid interpretation of Friedrich Froebel's educational principles, characterized by constant guiding of the child's…