John Dewey (1859–1952) was one of the great American pragmatist philosophers. He helped run the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago, and as a professor at Columbia University he taught students who brought his ideas about democratic education to places such as India, China, and Mexico. Nicholas Tampio is a professor of political science at Fordham University. He is the author of Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach (2022) and Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy (2018).
At the heart of John Dewey’s 1916 Democracy and Education is a concern with how to educate us for democratic citizenship—how to make us appropriately responsive to the world around us. Nicholas Tampio is the ideal philosopher to edit this new edition of Dewey’s magisterial text and help us understand its powerful and underappreciated legacy. This is a volume that will generate a great deal of energy, and it will do so at a time when the health of our own education for democracy in the United States and elsewhere is in doubt. -- Melvin L. Rogers, author of <i>The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought</i> A new edition of Democracy and Education is timely, especially as renewed interest in Dewey’s work is growing around the world. Nicholas Tampio’s edition will help students and scholars alike navigate Dewey’s writing style and uncover complex ideas that continue to have applied significance in school and society today. -- Sarah Stitzlein, author of <i>Learning How to Hope: Reviving Democracy Through Our Schools and Civil Society</i> After more than a hundred years, Democracy and Education is sprightly with Nicholas Tampio’s help,filled with insight that can and should guide future teachers, school leaders, education committees, and officers, as well as parents and guardians. This edition will be of great use to students and scholars of education, politics, and philosophy because of Tampio’s outstanding introduction of the work and its central themes and his insightful short statements at the start of each chapter. -- Eric Thomas Weber, editor of <i>America’s Public Philosopher: Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy</i>