Experiencing Dewey

Donna Adair Breault is department head of Childhood Education and Family Studies at Missouri State University. Rick Breault is director of the Southwest Regional Professional Development Center at Missouri State University.

"This second edition of Experiencing Dewey expands and strengthens an already highly useful text. The Breaults have once again extended Dewey's legacy by inviting new authors to re-imagine contemporary challenges in light of Dewey's work. This text will no doubt help new and seasoned Dewey readers alike to connect Dewey's work to the myriad problems we face today.”—Wesley Null, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Baylor University“As a teacher educator and former public school teacher, I still find Dewey’s work both formative and transformative. This book reminds us of Dewey’s profound impact on education and the need to reflect and engage in a national discourse about the value of experience in the learning process as we prepare students for the 21st Century.”—Maria Stallions, Associate Professor, Education, Roanoke University

• Foreword by Deron Boyles Introduction by Rick Breault and Donna Adair Breault Part I: Accountability Accountability: To Whom, for Whom, and by Whom? by Rick Breault 1. A Call for Creativity and Freedom in the Midst of Accountability: A Teachable Moment by Maggie Allison 2. Tracing Anew the Process of Learning by A. G. Rud 3. Responsibility not Accountability: The Experiential Artistry of Teaching by Walter S. Gershon 4. An Alternative Image of Data: Not What but Where by Sebastián Díaz 5. Who Is Accountable? by Alexander David Tuel 6. Art and Accountability by Kyle Greenwalt 7. On Democratic Accountability and the Educative Experience by Patrick M. Jenlink 8. How Mechanization Leads to Contempt for the Teaching and Learning Process by Louise Anderson Allen 9.Teaching Our Legislators a Big Idea in 52 Words or Less by Peter S. Hlebowitsh 10. What Imposed Standards Do to the Child bt M. Frances Klein 11. Collecting and Preserving the Educational Present by Craig Kridel Part II: Active Learning Active Learning: A Growth Experience by Rick Breault 12. A Spectator’s Version of Knowledge by Deron Boyles 13. Making Informed Judgments by Dan Marshall 14. The Growth of Future Generations Starts Today by Jonathan T. Martin 15. Experience, Heightened Vitality, and Aesthetic Engagement, or Why Is Stick Man Smiling? by P. Bruce Urmacher and Christy M. Moroye 16. Listening for the Gentle Whisper by Rick Breault 17. Work in School by Donna Adair Breault 18. Active Learning as Reflective Experience by William H. Schubert 19. Providing Environments Conducive to Proper Digestion by Lisa Goeken-Galliart 20. Becoming a Student of Teaching by Robert V. Bullough, Jr.21. Effort: The Outgrowth of Individual Interest by Robert C. Morris Part III: Critical Thinking The ‘Varied and Unusual’ Abuses of Critical Thinking by Donna Adair Breault 22. The Dangers of Imagination by Robert Boostrom 23. The Importance of Freedom of Thought by Matthew Keeler 24. Transcending False Dichotomies: Confronting One of Life’s Consistently Compelling Challenges by Thomas E. Kelly 25. Educator’s Professional Freedom for Students’ Democratic Liberation by James G. Henderson 26. American Students and the Explorer’s Mind by Laura Dawes 27. Dewey’s Freedom of Intelligence by Linda O’Neill 28. Unexamined Presumptions by George W. Noblit Part IV: Democratic Citizenship Preparing Children for Democratic Citizenship by Rick Breault 29. Teaching Democracy for Life by John M. Novak 30. Education for a Changing World by William Ayers 31. John Dewey and the American Creed by Daniel Tanner 32. John Dewey and the Import of a Curriculum Devoted to Student Experience by Chara Haeussler Bohan 33. The Best and Wisest Parent by David J. Flinders 34. Building a Community of Inquirers by Sam F. Stack Jr. 35. A Being Connected with Other Beings by Audrey M. Dentith 36. The Value of Communication in a Classroom Community by Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon 37. Realizing a Common Good by Randy Hewitt 38. Teacher as Shaper of Social Process by Louise M. Berman 39. The Societal Purpose of Education by Jesse Goodman 40. Foundations of Deweyan Democracy: Human Nature, Intelligence, and Cooperative Inquiry by Stephen M. Fishman 41. Why We Forget: Liberty, Memories, and Seeking Simple Answers by David M. Callejo-Pérez Part V: The Educative Experience An Educative Experience? A Lesson in Humility for a Second-Grade Teacher by Donna Adair Breault 42. Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Margaret Macintyre Latta 43. Growth: The Consummate Open-Ended Aspiration by Paul Shaker 44. The Relations of One Great Common World by Gary Weilbacher 45. Learning In and Out of School: Bridging the Cultural Gap by Ron W. Wilhelm 46. The Child and the Curriculum: Two Limits That Define a Single Process by William A. Reid 47. The Reconstruction of Experience by Edmund C. Short 48. The Teacher-Artist by George Willis 49. ‘Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful’ by Gert Biesta Part VI: Inquiry and Education Inquiry and Education: A Way of Seeing the World by Donna Adair Breault 50. The Power of an Ideal by Jim Garrison 51. Dogma, Democracy, and Education by William G. Wraga 52. The Role of Intelligence in the Creation of by Art Elliot W. Eisner 53. Imagination of Ideal Ends by Craig A. Cunningham 54. The Teacher as Theorist and Lover by Greg Seals 55. Autonomous Education: Free to Determine Its Own Ends by Larry A. Hickman Editors and Contributors