Dewey, Russell, Whitehead: Philosophers as Educators
by Brian Patrick Hendley
foreword by George Kimball Plochmann
introduction by Robert S. Brumbaugh
Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
Cloth: 978-0-8093-1229-0 | Paper: 978-0-8093-2983-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-8607-9
Library of Congress Classification LA126.H42 1986
Dewey Decimal Classification 370.1
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Philosophers as Educators Brian Patrick Hendley argues that philosophers of education should reject their preoccupation with defining terms and analyzing concepts and embrace the philosophical task of constructing general theories of education. Hendley discusses in detail the educational philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Alfred North Whitehead. He sees in these men excellent role models that contemporary philosophers might well follow. Hendley believes that, like these mentors, philosophers should take a more active, practical role in education. Dewey and Russell ran their own schools, and Whitehead served as a university administrator and as a member of many committees created to study education.
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