Title
Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions [electronic resource] : the reading of John Dewey's understanding of democracy and education / Rosa Bruno-Jofré ... [et al.].
ISBN
0773537848
9780773537859
0773537856
9780773537842
9780773580688 electronic book
Imprint
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
176 p.
Call Number
LB875.D5 D456 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
370.11/5
Summary
"How are ideas about education and democracy configured and reconfigured as they travel? Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions looks at the work of John Dewey, the renowned philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, and the ways in which his educational ideas and democratic ideals have been configured and reconfigured, adopted, and interpreted in different historical and cultural spaces." "Using case studies of China, Spain, and the American Interdenominational Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, the four authors explore the ways in which each alternative reading of Dewey's ideas was nested in the regionally dominant ideologies that preceded the arrival of his work and show that interpretations of his work developed differently in each setting, as a means of adapting to local needs." "Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions challenges us to think in new ways about how ideas are configured in historical contexts and how their interpretation is mediated by specific beliefs and historical circumstances."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Socialism or Protestant democracy : the pragmatist response to the perils of metropolis and modern industry in the late nineteenth century / Daniel Tröhler
Must democratic aims means ally : a historical-philosophical answer from an unlikely context / James Scott Johnston
Reading of the pedagogy of John Dewey in Spain in the early twentieth century : reconciling pragmatism and transcendence / Gonzalo Jover
To those in "heathen darkness" : Deweyan democracy and education in the American interdenominational configuration : the case of committee on cooperation in Latin America / Rosa Bruno-Jofré.
