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Dewey's Dream

Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform

By: Lee Benson,Ira Harkavy,John Puckett

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Dewey's Dream

Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform

By: Lee Benson,Ira Harkavy,John Puckett

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 illustrations from over 20 years of experience working with public schools in the University of Pennsylvania's local ecological community of West Philadelphia, to demonstrate how their ideas can be put into action. By emphasizing problem-solving as the foundation of education, their work has awakened university students to their social responsibilities. And while the project is still young, it demonstrates that Dewey's "Utopian ends" of creating optimally participatory democratic societies can lead to practical, constructive school, higher education and community change, development, and improvement.

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Temple University Press

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1592135927

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9781592135929

Becoming Penn

The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000

By: John L. Puckett,Mark Frazier Lloyd

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Becoming Penn

The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000

By: John L. Puckett,Mark Frazier Lloyd

After World War II, the University of Pennsylvania became one of the world's most celebrated research universities. John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd trace Penn's rise to eminence amid the postwar social, institutional, moral, and civic contexts that shaped American research universities.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812246802

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9780812246803

Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School

Education as If Citizenship Mattered

By: Michael C. Johanek,John L. Puckett

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Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School

Education as If Citizenship Mattered

By: Michael C. Johanek,John L. Puckett

What is the mission of American public education? As a nation, are we still committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long proclaimed, or have we lost sight of the second goal of encouraging students to be contributing members of a democratic society? In this enlightening book, John Puckett and Michael Johanek describe one of America's most notable experiments in "community education." In the process, they offer a richly contextualized history of twentieth-century efforts to educate students as community-minded citizens. Although student test scores now serve to measure schools' achievements, the authors argue compellingly that the democratic goals of citizen-centered community schools can be reconciled with the academic performance demands of contemporary school reform movements. Using the twenty-year history of community-centered schooling at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem as a case study-and reminding us of the pioneering vision of its founder, Leonard Covello-they suggest new approaches for educating today's students to be better "public citizens.

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Temple University Press

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1592135218

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9781592135219

Becoming Penn

The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000

By: John L. Puckett,Mark Frazier Lloyd

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The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000

By: John L. Puckett,Mark Frazier Lloyd

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Dewey's Dream

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Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School

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Becoming Penn

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