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Publication Date: 2015
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Re-Reading Dewey through a Feminist Lens
Vorsino, Mary
Educational Perspectives, v47 n1-2 p50-54 2015
In this review, Mary Vorsino writes that she is interested in keeping the potential influences of women pragmatists of Dewey's day in mind while presenting modern feminist re readings of Dewey. She wishes to construct a narrowly-focused and succinct literature review of thinkers who have donned a feminist lens to analyze Dewey's approaches to education, learning, and democracy and to employ Dewey's works in theorizing on gender and education and on gender in society. This article first explores Dewey as both an ally and a problematic figure in feminist literature and then investigates the broader sphere of feminist pragmatism and two central themes within it: (1) valuing diversity, and diverse experiences; and (2) problematizing fixed truths.
Descriptors: Feminism, Literature Reviews, Educational Practices, Change Agents, Womens Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Cultural Differences, Educational Experience, Review (Reexamination)
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