A. Schutz

Social Class, Social Action, and Education

The Failure of Progressive Democracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on progressivism's conceptions of democracy. The analysis is interdisciplinary, beginning with a broad-ranging history of working- and middle-class culture in America, and grounded in American pragmatism, with the educator and philosopher, John Dewey, as its central "character." Schutz demonstrates that progressive ideas of democracy emerged out of the practices of a new middle class, reacting, in part, against the more conflictive social struggles of the working-class. The volume traces two distinct branches of democratic progressivism: collaborative and personalist. After examining the limitations of progressive democratic visions, the author explores an alternative working-class model, "democratic solidarity," that seems to correct many of these limitations

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-10591-1
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9780230105911
• ISBN-10: 0230105912
• Artikelnr.: 30537359

Autorenporträt

AARON SCHUTZ Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: OVERVIEW Social Class and Social Action PART II: COLLABORATIVE PROGRESSIVISM John Dewey's Conundrum: Can Democratic Schools Empower? John Dewey and a 'Paradox of Size': Faith at the Limits of Experience PART III: PERSONALIST PROGRESSIVISM The Lost Vision of 1920s Personalists The Free Schools Movement PART IV: DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY Community Organizing: A Working-Class Approach to Democratic Empowerment PART V: CASE STUDY Social Class and Social Action in the Civil Rights Movement PART VI: CONCLUSION Building Bridges?