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Prof. Emeritus Philip Jackson. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center. As a leader in the field of education and curriculum studies, Philip W. Jackson was deeply concerned with the role of schools in the moral development of children.
Philip Wesley Jackson (December 2, 1928, in Vineland – July 21, 2015, in Chicago) was an American pedagogue who was professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. During his career, he also served as president of the American Educational Research Association and of the John Dewey Society.
Philip Jackson’s engaging style mixes selective forays into the work of Dewey, Tillich, Kant, and Hegel with a rich understanding of how teachers do, can, and should work with students in their classrooms.
In his first chapter, Jackson finds Dewey’s account of truth to be a productive orientation for his sojourn into education’s core. Jackson identifies ‘trafficking’ in truth, in contrast to its pursuit, as a core element of education’s mission.
- Winston C Thompson
Exhibit Dates: November 12 – December 31, 2015. Philip W. Jackson circa 1965. (University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, apf1-05214) Philip W. Jackson spent a lifetime in education; as a researcher, a philosopher and an educator.
Nov 7, 2011 · Jackson argues that we need to learn not just how to improve on current practices but also how to think about what education means—in short, we need to answer Dewey by constantly rethinking education from the ground up.
Philip W. Jackson (1929–2015) was the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology and in the College at the University of Chicago.
