"Genuine experiences cannot be planned, but they remain inside our memories for a lifetime. Unfortunately, there are some dangerous educators out there. You might find them where you least expect – in schools, universities, and the workplace. So, who are they, and what makes them bad?"

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ABOUT JOHN DEWEY

With an increasing interest in the philosophy of pragmatism and a critique of the Western philosophy of knowledge, as well as in recent political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion, growing interest in knowledge development is now being directed back to the American philosopher who once influenced a whole world with his view of experience and education.

John Dewey wrote hundreds of articles and books on topics such as democracy, education, ethics, and philosophy. From John Dewey’s comprehensive text production, we have chosen what we consider to be one of the best statements of experience and human development, the book Experience & Education, and presented it in a new way.

With the help of John Dewey’s philosophy of “knowing”, the pragmatic nature of experience intervenes with our understanding of a life-attitude, i.e., life, as it could be, if not distorted by the many misguided deeds in, or mannerly aims of, teaching, as a reproductive and instrumental practice. We take on John Dewey’s experimental method right from the beginning, from where it all starts, in fostering our children. Let’s call our ambition a project of a parental attitude. No matter what kind of educator people are: fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, grannies, teachers, scholars, managers, or politicians, there is no better starting point than John Dewey’s transactional theory of learning if to understand how life unfolds in a constructive direction.

THE AUTHOR

After some previous publications in different fields of Educational Research—like Research as Culture and Knowledge Production—PhD Dan Tedenljung at Mälardalens University took the initiative to publish a popular scientifically illustrated book based on Educational Philosophy.

BOOKS

Dads & Fathers—A Book on Dangerous Educators is a book for parents on parental education, but it is a very different one. It is a book about something more significant than whether you or I are fit to be parents. It is a book for anyone who wonders how learning can be handled pragmatically.

The book also provides answers to a question that many politicians, researchers, and teachers seem to find difficult to understand the importance of: Who is the educator?

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A book about Dangerous Educators

“A remarkable and unexpected book. It is a delightful, unique, and well-executed conception.”
—Jim Garrison, Professor of Philosophy of Education at Virginia Tech

Sample spreads (text fully legible in PDF)

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