



Pratt) (17) Knowing scientifically is essential for democratic society (Christine McCarthy) (18) Educational values: Schools as cultures of imagination, growth, and fulfillment (Steven Fesmire) (19) The value of the present: Rethinking labor and leisure through education (Scott R. Santoro) (14) Subject matter: Combining 'learning by doing' with past collective experience (Meinert Meyer) (15) Work, play and learning (Christopher Winch) (16) Boundaries as limits and possibilities (Scott L. Greenhalgh) (13) Method: Intelligent engagement with subject matter (Doris A. English) (12) The role of thinking in education: Why Dewey still raises the bar on educators (Jack P. Wilson) (11) Experience and thinking: Transforming our perspective on learning (Andrea R. Mintz) (10) Shaping and sharing democratic aims: Reconstructing interest and discipline (Terri S. Waks) (9) What is the purpose of education?: Dewey's challenge to his contemporaries (Avi I. English) (7) 'A mode of associated living': The distinctiveness of Deweyan democracy (Kathleen Knight Abowitz) (8) A democratic theory of aims (Leonard J. Stitzlein) (5) Democracy without telos: Education for a future uncertain (Gonzalo Obelleiro) (6) What is the role of the past in education? (Andrea R. Rud) (4) Growth, habits, and plasticity in education (Sarah M. Waks) (2) Learning and its environments (Loren Goldman) (3) Giving form and structure to experience (A.G. Waks, the chapters in Part I include: (1) Learning by doing and communicating (Leonard J. Beginning with an Introduction to Part I by Leonard J. These serve to guide readers through the complex arguments developed in the book. English, Part I, Companion Chapters, features short companion chapters corresponding to each of Dewey's chapters in Democracy and Education. The authors are specialists in the fields of philosophy and education their chapters offer readers expert insight into areas of Dewey work that they know well and have returned to time and time again throughout their careers. This "Handbook" is designed to help experts and non-experts to navigate Dewey's text. It covers a wide range of themes and issues relating to education, including teaching, learning, educational environments, subject matter, values, and the nature of work and play. John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" is the touchstone for a great deal of modern educational theory.
