xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
Wow!!
This is fascinating.
We may really think that chances are higher that Dewey was influenced by
Marxist philosophy and Russian, maybe even Vygotsky's theories of
education, than the other way around!!
Very cool.
Thanks for the link
Ana
well, to toss in another historical turn - i think that it would be
wiser to see Dewey has having been far more influenced by Jane Adams of
the chicago settlement house work and her social activism than marx,
russia and vygotsky - for example, Dewey's "Democracy and education" is
from 1916, where he discusses natural development and social efficacy as
an aim of education which he understands as freely fully occuring in
shared common activities. "And there is no better definition of culture
than that it is the capacity for constantly expanding the range and
accuracy of one's perception of meaning" (p. 123). Free press paper back
edition - Macmillan.
phillip
* * * * * * * *
* *
The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
university of colorado at denver
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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