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Foreword David Hansen; Acknowledgments; Note on abbreviations; Introduction Leonard J. Waks and Andrea R. English; Part I. Companion Chapters: Introduction to Part I Leonard J. Waks; 1. Learning by doing and communicating Leonard J. Waks; 2. Learning and its environments Loren Goldman; 3. Giving form and structure to experience A. G. Rud; 4. Growth, habits, and plasticity in education Sarah M. Stitzlein; 5. Democracy without telos: education for a future uncertain Gonzalo Obelleiro; 6. What is the role of the past in education? Andrea R. English; 7. 'A mode of associated living': the distinctiveness of Deweyan democracy Kathleen Knight Abowitz; 8. A democratic theory of aims Leonard J. Waks; 9. What is the purpose of education?: Dewey's challenge to his contemporaries Avi I. Mintz; 10. Shaping and sharing democratic aims: reconstructing interest and discipline Terri S. Wilson; 11. Experience and thinking: transforming our perspective on learning Andrea R. English; 12. The role of thinking in education: why Dewey still raises the bar on educators Jack P. Smith, III and Spencer P. Greenhalgh; 13. Method: intelligent engagement with subject matter Doris A. Santoro; 14. Subject matter: combining 'learning by doing' with past collective experience Meinert Meyer; 15. Work, play and learning Christopher Winch; 16. Boundaries as limits and possibilities Scott L. Pratt; 17. Knowing scientifically is essential for democratic society Christine McCarthy; 18. Educational values: schools as cultures of imagination, growth, and fulfillment Steven Fesmire; 19. The value of the present: rethinking labor and leisure through education Scott R. Stroud; 20. An old story: Dewey's account of the opposition between the intellectual and the practical David I. Waddington; 21. Nature and human life in an education for democracy Martin A. Coleman; 22. Individuality and a flourishing society: a reciprocal relationship Hongmei Peng; 23. Autonomy, occupation and vocational education Christopher Winch; 24. Philosophy of education Richard Pring; 25. Healing splits: Dewey's theory of knowing Barbara Thayer-Bacon; 26. The consciously growing and refreshing life Douglas J. Simpson; Part II. Democracy and Education in Context: Introduction to Part II Andrea R. English; 27. The dialogue of death and life: education, civilization, and growth Thomas Alexander; 28. John Dewey, a modern thinker: on education (as Bildung and Erziehung) and democracy (as a political system and a mode of associated living) Dietrich Benner; 29. John Dewey's refutation of classical educational thinking Jürgen Oelkers; 30. The social as the 'inclusive philosophic idea' of democracy and education: some constructivists' reflections Jim Garrison, Stefan Neubert and Kersten Reich; 31. John Dewey and the analytic paradigm in philosophy of education: conceptual analysis as a social aim? Christopher Martin; 32. Dewey, care ethics, and education Nel Noddings; 33. Technologies for democracy and education in the 21st century Craig A. Cunningham; 34. Inviting Dewey to an online forum: using technology to deepen student understanding of democracy and education Rosetta Marantz Cohen; 35. John Dewey: philosopher of education for our time Richard Pring; Index.