Pragmatism and education / / Daniel Trohler and Jurgen Oelkers.

The papers in this book have emerged from a conference which was organized in Zurich in 2003 by the Pestalozzianum Research Institute for the History of Education and the Educational Institute of the University of Zurich. The conference was organized in light of the increasing internationalization o...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2005]
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Daniel Tröhler and Jürgen Oelkers
  • Introduction: Pragmatism and Education in the International Discussion / Daniel Tröhler and Jürgen Oelkers
  • The Hegelian Roots of Dewey’s Pragmatism / James A. Good
  • William James’ Theory of Religion and Pluralistic World / Meike Sophia Baader
  • Public Intercommunications / Hans-Peter Krüger
  • The Concepts of Activity and Effectiveness in Dewey’s Aesthetics / Roswitha Lehmann-Rommel
  • Modern City, Social Justice and Education / Daniel Tröhler
  • Jane Addams’ and Mary Parker Follett’s Applied Pragmatism / Birgit Althans
  • George Herbert Mead and the Theory of Schooling / Gert Biesta
  • Some Historical Notes on George Herbert Mead’s Theory of Education / Jürgen Oelkers
  • Dewey And James in Germany – Missed Opportunities in German Pedagogy for Creative Encounter with American Pragmatism / Philipp Gonon
  • The Perception of Dewey’s Pragmatism in Germany after 1945 / Stefan Bittner
  • Dewey’s Optimism / Philip W. Jackson.