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From the old new republic to a great community: insights and contradictions in John Dewey's public pedagogy
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Abstract This article draws from John Dewey's philosophy of education, ideas about democracy and pragmatist assumptions to explain how his articles for The New Republic functioned pedagogically. Taking media as a mode of public pedagogy, and drawing extensively from Dewey’s Democracy and Education, as well a... mehr
This article draws from John Dewey's philosophy of education, ideas about democracy and pragmatist assumptions to explain how his articles for The New Republic functioned pedagogically. Taking media as a mode of public pedagogy, and drawing extensively from Dewey’s Democracy and Education, as well as from his book The Public and its Problems, the article explores the relationships between communication, education and democracy using the expanded conceptions of all the aforementioned advanced by Dewey. Borrowing insights from Randolph Bourne, who used Dewey's own ideas to criticize his mentor's influence on intellectuals who supported US involvement in World War I, the analysis explores the contradictions within Dewey's public pedagogy. The article suggests Dewey's relevance as a public intellectual in the liberal-progressive press, his view of the State and some of his related presuppositions produced a tension in his thought, delimiting democratic possibilities while simultaneously pointing toward greater democratic potentials. The essay concludes by suggesting that learning from both Dewey and Bourne prompts us to get beyond the former’s public/private dualism to realize what he called the "Great Community" by communicating and practicing the Commons.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bildung; Demokratie; Medien; Kommunikation; Erziehung; Pädagogik; Mediengeschichte; Philosophie
Klassifikation
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Erziehungswissenschaft
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Kommunikationswissenschaften
Philosophie, Theologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Dewey, J.; Bourne. R.
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 34-42
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 6 (2018) 1
Heftthema
Media history and democracy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)