Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Overview; 1 Social Class and Social Action; Part Ii: Collaborative Progressivism; 2 John Dewey's Conundrum: Can Democratic Schools Empower?; 3 John Dewey and a "Paradox of Size": Faith at the Limits of Experience; Part Iii: Personalist Progressivism; 4 The Lost Vision of 1920s Personalists; 5 The Free Schools Movement; Part Iv: Democratic Solidarity; 6 Community Organizing: A Working-Class Approach to Democratic Empowerment; Part V: Case Study; 7 Social Class and Social Action in the Civil Rights Movement; Part Vi: Conclusion. 8 Building Bridges?Notes; Index.
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This volume focuses on progressivism's conceptions of democracy. The analysis is interdisciplinary, beginning with a broad-ranging history of working- and middle-class culture in America, and grounded in American pragmatism, with the educator and philosopher, John Dewey, as its central "character." 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. After.