”Genuine experiences cannot be planned for but remains inside our memories for a lifetime.”There are some Dangerous Educators out there; don’t you agree? You might find them where you least expect—in schools, at universities and at the workplace. So who are they and what makes them bad?

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ABOUT JOHN DEWEY

With an increasing interest in the philosophy of pragmatism and a critique of the Western philosophy of knowledge, as well as in recent political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion, growing interest in knowledge development is now being directed back to the American philosopher who once influenced a whole world with his view of experience and education.

John Dewey wrote hundreds of articles and many books on topics such as democracy, education, ethics and philosophy. From John Dewey’s comprehensive text production, we have chosen what we consider is one of the best statements of experience and human development, namely the book entitled Experience & Education and present them in a new way.

With this help of John Dewey’s philosophy of “knowing”, the pragmatic nature of experience intervene with our understanding of a life-attitude, i.e. life, as it could be, if not distorted by the many misguided deeds in, or mannerly aims of, teaching, as a reproductive and instrumental practice. We take on John Dewey’s experimental method right from the beginning, from where it all starts, in the fostering of our own children. Let’s call our ambition a project of a parental attitude. No matter what kind of educator people end up being: fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, grannies, teachers, scholars, managers or politicians; there is no better starting point than John Dewey’s transactional theory of learning if to understand how life unfold in a constructive direction.

THE AUTHOR

After some previous publications in different fields of Educational Research – like Research as Culture and Knowledge Production – PhD Dan Tedenljung at Mälardalens University, takes initiative to publish a popular scientifically illustrated book based on Educational Philosophy.

BOOKS

Dads & Fathers – A Book on Dangerous Educators is a book for parents on parental education, but a very dif‌ferent one. It is a book about something greater than You or Me being fit to be parents. It is a book for anyone who wonders how the process of learning can be handled in a pragmatic way.

The book also provides answers to a question that many politicians, researchers and teachers seem to find difficult to understand the importance of: Who is the educator?

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A book about Dangerous Educators

“A remarkable and unexpected book. It is a delightful, a unique and well executed conception.”
—Jim Garrison, Professor of Philosophy of Education at Virginia Tech

Sample spreads (text fully legible in PDF)

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