Social Class, Social Action, and Education: The Failure of Progressive Democracy
Author:   A. Schutz
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780230105911


Pages:   269
Publication Date:   17 November 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Social Class, Social Action, and Education: The Failure of Progressive Democracy


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Schutz demonstrates that progressive ideas of democracy emerged out of the practices of a new middle class, reacting, in part, against the more conflictive social struggles of the working-class. The volume traces two distinct branches of democratic progressivism: collaborative and personalist.

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Author:   A. Schutz
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780230105911


ISBN 10:   0230105912
Pages:   269
Publication Date:   17 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

PART I: OVERVIEW Social Class and Social Action PART II: COLLABORATIVE PROGRESSIVISM John Dewey's Conundrum: Can Democratic Schools Empower? John Dewey and a 'Paradox of Size': Faith at the Limits of Experience PART III: PERSONALIST PROGRESSIVISM The Lost Vision of 1920s Personalists The Free Schools Movement PART IV: DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY Community Organizing: A Working-Class Approach to Democratic Empowerment PART V: CASE STUDY Social Class and Social Action in the Civil Rights Movement PART VI: CONCLUSION Building Bridges?

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AARON SCHUTZ Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.

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