Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey's ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico, this book examines the use of Dewey in Mexico's state-building projects as a vantage point to assess the global impact of Dewey's pedagogy as these projects converged with Dewey's desire to employ education as a tool for effective social change, understood by foreign interlocutors of Dewey as modernity.

Victor J. Rodriguez is Lecturer in History at Wenzhou-Kean University, China.

1. Introduction: Race, Modernity and Nation in the Reception of Dewey's Pedagogy in Mexico 2. Radical Dewey: Deweyan Pedagogy in Mexico, 1915-1923 3. Practical Dewey: Mexican Protestants and the Promise of America 4. Moisés Saénz and the Revolutionary Project of the Escuelas Activas 5. Dangerous Dewey: The Critique of the Dewey Project in Mexico (and Dewey's Critique of Mexico)