Liberating the Deweyan Learning Environment

• In Event: 16.044 - Deweyan Discourses on Democracy in a Neoliberal Era: Toward Liberating Education

Abstract

This paper finds that John Dewey’s philosophy of education, with its holistic vision, leaves room for a broader interpretation of the best learning environment for schooling, one that can and should adapt to balance the needs of the historical period and context. This hermeneutical research of Dewey’s Democracy and Education is a call of action for philosophy to creatively reimagine the school-learning environment.

Author

• LeAnn M. Holland, Teachers College, Columbia University