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Publication Date: 2016-Apr
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Dewey's Participatory Educational Democracy
Višnovský, Emil; Zolcer, Štefan
Educational Theory, v66 n1-2 p55-71 Apr 2016
In this essay, Emil Višnovský and Štefan Zolcer outline John Dewey's contribution to democratic theory as presented in his 1916 classic "Democracy and Education." The authors begin with a review of the general context of Dewey's conception of democracy, and then focus on particular democratic ideas and concepts as presented in "Democracy and Education." This analysis emphasizes not so much the technical elaboration of these ideas and concepts as their philosophical framework and the meanings of democracy for education and education for democracy elaborated by Dewey. Apart from other aspects of Deweyan educational democracy, Višnovský and Zolcer focus on participation as one of its key characteristics, ultimately claiming that the notion of educational democracy Dewey developed in this work is participatory.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Democratic Values, Social Theories, Educational Theories
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