Democratic Education and the Teacher-As-Prophet: Exploring the Religious Work of Schools

ISBN-13: 9780367589080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Jeffery Dunn

Opis

This volume aims to reveal how Dewey’s notion of the religious—understood as faith in the human relational condition—offers a way to think differently about the aims and purposes of education. By catalysing the religious work of schools—understood not as teaching religion, but as a process of social unification.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Problem of Neoliberalism in Education

Chapter 2: Religion in Schools as a Solution

Chapter 3: John Dewey and the ‘Religious’ Work of Schools

Chapter 4: The Teacher as Prophet

Chapter 5: The Prophetic Work of the Teacher

Conclusion

Appendix A: Neoliberal Tenets

Appendix B: Dewey’s Terminology

O autorze

Jeffery W. Dunn received a PhD (2017) in Leadership and Policy: Philosophy of Education from the Ohio State University, USA.