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.
Table of Content
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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