Last of the Summer Wine
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Jackson, the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Education, Psychology and the College, died July 21 due to complications from cancer. He was 86. The author of several influential books, he was internationally known as an expert on education pioneer John Dewey.
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.
Sep 7, 2012 · Primarily, Jackson straightaway reveals the titular inquiry’s origin in his reading of John Dewey’s concluding statements to an assembly of Kappa Delta Pi educators in 1938. Dewey closed his remarks by asking his audience to consider education ‘pure and simple’; that is, without biased adjectival qualifiers shading its usage.
Nov 7, 2011 · At a time when schools increasingly serve as a battleground for ideological contests, What Is Education? is a stirring call to refocus our minds on what is for Jackson the fundamental goal of making students as well as teachers—and therefore everyone—better people.
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Mar 29, 2016 · At a time when schools increasingly serve as a battleground for ideological contests, What Is Education? is a stirring call to refocus our minds on what is for Jackson the fundamental goal of education: making students as well as teachers—and therefore everyone—better people.
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Philip W. Jackson spent a lifetime in education; as a researcher, a philosopher and an educator. According to his former student, Catharine Bell (PhD ’07), he “believed children have the capacity to see the wonderful in the ordinary.”
