Turning Pragmatism into Practice

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“John Dewey's pedagogical concepts are timeless, and Daniel W. Stuckart has delivered the preeminent writing on Dewey for the social studies classroom.
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Oregon University; executive editor, Oregon Journal of the Social Studies

Antonio; former president of the National Council for the Social Studies

“In his new book, Stuckart provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of how Dewey’s philosophy can inform social studies teachers tending the curricular-instructional gate.”

—Stephen J. Thornton, professor of social science education,  University of South Florida; author of the award-winning  Teaching Social Studies That Matters: Curriculum for Active Learning “In this engaging book, Stuckart revisits, revitalizes, and returns the field to the educational ideas of Dewey that might enliven classrooms. He takes the rather dense works from Dewey’s long career and makes them accessible for educators and applicable to the classroom. Pre-service to veteran social studies educators would be wise to engage with these pragmatic ideas as they prepare the next generation of citizens for democratic living.”

—Daniel G. Krutka, assistant professor of social studies  education, University of North Texas; chair, Social Studies  Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association Despite the founding of the modern social studies curriculum nearly a century ago based on John Dewey’s pragmatism philosophy, the field has never achieved a significant and broad implementation of his ideas. Dewey’s instrumentalism offers social studies educators a tool for addressing vexing problems such as whether they should design classroom experiences using a traditional or social studies approach to learning history, the role of digital technologies, the purpose and challenges of younger learners working with an expanding horizons curriculum, and many more. Turning Pragmatism into Practice: A Vision for Social Studies Teachers provides the why and how of what we do, an ideal for creating a challenging and rigorous social studies curriculum while engaging students’ interests.

Turning Pragmatism into Practice

“Stuckart’s Turning Pragmatism into Practice provides a vision for turning Dewey’s philosophic constructs into a vision of what a secondary social studies curriculum and classroom might look like. By providing the reader with an understanding of inquiry-based learning, Stuckart hopes to guide educators toward the establishment of democratic norms as part of secondary social studies classroom experiences.”  —Richard Diem, dean emeritus, University of Texas at San



Stuckart

“John Dewey’s pedagogical concepts are timeless, and Daniel W. Stuckart has delivered the preeminent writing on Dewey for the social studies classroom. His book provides social studies educators with the mechanisms for using Dewey’s instrumentalism philosophy to facilitate student learning toward an informed democratic populace. This should be on the bookshelf of every social studies educator!” —Kenneth Carano, associate professor, Western

Turning Pragmatism into Practice

A Vision for Social Studies Teachers

Daniel W. Stuckart is associate professor of social studies education at Lehman College in the Bronx, New York, with research interests in urban education, technology, and student-centered practices.

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Daniel W. Stuckart