Teachers, Leaders, and Schools: Essays by John Dewey

Author bios

Douglas J. Simpson holds the Helen DeVitt Jones Chair in Teacher Education at Texas Tech University, where he teaches in the areas of curriculum studies and curriculum theory with emphasis on the anthropological, pedagogical, epistemological, and ecological dimensions of school and societal curricula. His previous publications include John Dewey Primer (2006), John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice (coauthored with Michael J. B. Jackson and Judy C. Aycock, 2005), and Educational Reform: A Deweyan Perspective (coauthored with Michael J. B. Jackson, 1997). Sam F. Stack Jr. received his BA in sociology from Furman University and his PhD in social and cultural foundations from the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Elsie Ripley Clapp (1879–1965): Her Life and the Community School (2004). His recent publications include “John Dewey and the Question of Race: The Fight for Odell Waller” (Education and Culture, 2009) and “Implementing Brown v. Board of Education in West Virginia: The Southern School News Reports” (West Virginia History, 2008). ...