Vietnam and Beyond: the Challenge to Educators

Young people must be helped…systematically [to] build their own criteria of value; for otherwise we shall have a citizenry which is condemned to operate inside another\u27s view of reality, says this concerned educator. He spells out the challenge to society and self

An in-service address; the foundations of education

Education is a field, and an institutional reality, in which fierce arguments are raging. There simply Is no consensus regarding what good education is in America in the last quarter of the twentieth century. There are no experts and no consensus, but we are still committed to wrestling with the most difficult questions concerning the school and the society

Dewey's Concept Of Community: A Last Third Of The Twentieth Century Perspective

John Dewey belongs to a tradition in the west whose members have attempted to explain how the breakdown of community has occurred. Although Dewey is not a romantic nor a conservative, he acknowledges his debt to their nineteenth century analyses. Dewey argued that the school and the greater society are inextricably one; therefore, the kind of school he favored was dependent upon the building of a democratic community. Dewey's analysis of the disintegrative power of bourgeois liberalism and its inability to replace the synthesis of medieval civilization goes a long way toward explaining the educational, social, political and moral crises which afflict much of the modern industrial west, and especially America

The Relationship Of Dewey's Pedagogy To His Concept Of Community.

PhDEducationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/187312/2/7229007.pd

The Rise and Fall of Festivals - Reflections on the Salzburg Festival

The paper takes a closer look at cultural festivals such as musical or operatic festivals. From an economic viewpoint the paper shows that such festivals offer great artistic and economic opportunities, but that at the same time these opportunities are also easy to destroy. Empirical evidence from the Salzburg Festival show that government support can have negative effects on the innovative and economically success of festivals by introducing distorting incentives and imposing all sorts of restrictions. The paper draws policy suggestions on how the state can support art festivals