Copyright (c) 2009 Purdue Libraries All rights reserved. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc Recent documents in Education and Culture en-us Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:53:35 PDT 3600 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art10 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art10 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:29 PDT Richard Shusterman book review http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art9 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art9 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:27 PDT Nathalia E. Jaramillo http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art8 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art8 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:26 PDT Catharine Bell http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art7 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art7 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:24 PDT Lynda Stone http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art6 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art6 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:22 PDT Malcolm X in his autobiography claimed that every experience he had as a youth was educative. Such a claim confronts us, as educators, with a serious dilemma, that is, whether all transformations and human experiences are educative. In reviewing John Dewey's major writings on the topic, the author concludes that some of Malcolm X's early experiences were not educative although his re-education through the instrumentality of the Nation of Islam served him well as an educative experience because it liberated him from the destructive rendition of the social order. Magnus O. Bassey Educational Foundations http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art5 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art5 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:19 PDT Excellent, democratic education that furthers each person's potential, success and happiness for her own and others' well-being is not yet widespread in the U.S. today. Dewey's The Public and Its Problems has much to say about the possibilities and challenges of achieving this goal. This paper examines Dewey's ideas about how a public for widespread, excellent education can form through the development of sound public opinion based on widely disseminated, accurate and relevant information and through the restructuring of associations among people. The crucial role of the educator in the formation of a public emerges through this examination. Elizabeth Meadows democratic education http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art4 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art4 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:16 PDT John Dewey and the Question of Race: The Fight for Odell Waller Abstract: In an attempt to better understand the complexity of American racism and democracy, this paper explores racism through the plight of an African American sharecropper, Odell Waller, and the reaction and involvement of John Dewey, America's most liberal democratic philosopher of the 20th century. This exploration delves into the nature of American justice in one of the most difficult struggles in our history, the late years of the Depression and the early years of World War II. Furthermore, the paper traces Dewey's limited discussion of race and his involvement in attacking racism in American society. Sam F. Stack Jr. history http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art3 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art3 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:14 PDT It has been said that pragmatism's "merely instrumental" truths fail to motivate radical change whereas absolute ideals make excellent guiding and driving forces for justice. However, in Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, Robert Moses speaks of the radical success of pragmatic principles, used in the Civil Rights Movement, that are continued today in the Algebra Project. This paper applies Dewey's claims about education and community to Moses's own arguments as a means of depicting the role that pragmatic ideals play in achieving radical social change. Jessica Wahman http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art2 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art2 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:02 PDT A. G. Rud http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art1 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol25/iss1/art1 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:00 PDT E&C Volume 25, Issue 1