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" Dewey's dream : "
Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett.
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BL
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1013438
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b767808
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Benson, Lee
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Dewey's dream : : universities and democracies in an age of education reform : civil society, public schools, and democratic citizenship /\ Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett.
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Philadelphia :: Temple University Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xiv, 149 pages)
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1592135935
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: 9781592135936
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1592135919
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1592135927
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9781592135912
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9781592135929
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.
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Introduction : Dewey's lifelong crusade for participatory democracy -- Michigan beginnings, 1884-1894 -- Dewey at the University of Chicago, 1894-1904 -- Dewey leaves the University of Chicago for Columbia University -- Elsie Clapp's contributions to community schools -- Penn and the third revolution in American higher education -- The Center for Community Partnerships -- The university civic responsibility idea becomes an international movement -- John Dewey, the Coalition for Community Schools, and developing a participatory democratic American society.
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This timely, persuasive, and hopeful book reexamines John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. The authors assert that American colleges and universities bear a responsibility for-and would benefit substantially from-working with schools to develop democratic schools and communities. Dewey's Dream opens with a reappraisal of Dewey's philosophy and an argument for its continued relevance today. The authors-all well-known in education circles-use illust.
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Dewey, John,1859-1952.
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Dewey, John,1859-1952.
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Dewey, John,1859-1952.
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Education-- Philosophy.
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Educational change.
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EDUCATION-- General.
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EDUCATION-- Philosophy Social Aspects.
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Education-- Philosophy.
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Educational change.
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370.1
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LB875.D5B46 2007eb
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Harkavy, Ira Richard
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Puckett, John L.,1947-
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