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Contents Preface vii David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University 1 Introduction: Reading Democracy and Education 1 David T. Hansen 2 “Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful”: The Communicative Turn in Dewey’s Democracy and Education 23 Gert Biesta 3 Curriculum Matters 39 Reba N. Page 4 Socialization, Social Efficiency, and Social Control: Putting Pragmatism to Work 67 Larry A. Hickman 5 Growth and Perfectionism? Dewey after Emerson and Cavell 81 Naoko Saito 6 Rediscovering the Student in Democracy and Education 97 Gary D Fenstermacher 7 Dewey’s Reconstruction of the Curriculum: From Occupations to Disciplined Knowledge 113 Herbert M. Kliebard 8 A Teacher Educator Looks at Democracy and Education 129 Sharon Feiman-Nemser 9 Dewey’s Philosophy of Life 147 Elizabeth Minnich 10 Dewey’s Book of the Moral Self 165 David T. Hansen List of Contributors 189 Index 191 vi Contents ...

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