Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey Modernities and the Traveling of Pragmatism in Education

Pragmatism provoked both admiration and fear, as global changes brought into the twentieth century provoked a revisioning of the cultural narratives about who the citizen and child are and should be. In a new book edited by Thomas S. Popkewitz, scholars representing twelve nations provide original chapters to explore the epistemic features and cultural theses figured in Dewey's writings as they assembled in the discourses of public schooling. The significance of Dewey in the book is not about Dewey as the messenger of pragmatism, but in locating different cultural, political, and educational terrains in which debates about modernity, the modern self, and the making of the citizen occurred.

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His studies are concerned with the knowledge or systems of reason that govern educational policy and research in teaching, teacher education, and curriculum, including The Political Sociology of Educational Reform, Governing the Soul, and Cultural History and Education.

Introduction * Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey: Modernities and the Traveling of Pragmatism in Education--Thomas S.Popkewitz * European Spaces: The Northern and Southern Tiers * Dewey as an Epistemic Figure in the Swedish Discourse on Governing the Self--Ulf Ollsson and Kenneth Petersson * Langue as Homeland: The Genevan Reception of Dewey in the Challenge of Modernity--Daniel Tröhler * Dewey in Belgium: A Libation for Modernity--Tom Decoster, Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon, and Angelo Van Gorp * Dewey on Lima or the Social Prosthesis in the Construction of a New Education Discourse in Portugal (1925-1936)--Jorge Ramos do Ó * European Spaces: The Southern and Eastern Tiers* Balkanizing John Dewey--Noah W. Sobe * John Dewey's Travelings into the Project of Turkish Modernity--
Sabiha Bilgi and Seckin özsoy * The Americas * Discursive Inscriptions in the Fabrication of a Modern Self: Mexican Educational Appropriations of Dewey's Writings--Rosa N. Buenfil Burgos * John Dewey through Anisio Teixeira or Reenchantment of the World--Mirian Jorge Warde * The Appropriation of Dewey's Pedagogy in Columbia as a Cultural Event--Javier Sáenz ObregÓn * Asia/Asia Minor *A History of the Present: Chinese Intellectuals,Confucianism and Pragmatism--Jie Qi * Dewey and the Ambivalent Modern Japan--Kentaro Ohkura *

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Introduction * Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey: Modernities and the Traveling of Pragmatism in Education--Thomas S.Popkewitz * European Spaces: The Northern and Southern Tiers * Dewey as an Epistemic Figure in the Swedish Discourse on Governing the Self--Ulf Ollsson and Kenneth Petersson * Langue as Homeland: The Genevan Reception of Dewey in the Challenge of Modernity--Daniel Tröhler * Dewey in Belgium: A Libation for Modernity--Tom Decoster, Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon, and Angelo Van Gorp * Dewey on Lima or the Social Prosthesis in the Construction of a New Education Discourse in Portugal (1925-1936)--Jorge Ramos do Ó * European Spaces: The Southern and Eastern Tiers* Balkanizing John Dewey--Noah W. Sobe * John Dewey's Travelings into the Project of Turkish Modernity--
Sabiha Bilgi and Seckin özsoy * The Americas * Discursive Inscriptions in the Fabrication of a Modern Self: Mexican Educational Appropriations of Dewey's Writings--Rosa N. Buenfil Burgos * John Dewey through Anisio Teixeira or Reenchantment of the World--Mirian Jorge Warde * The Appropriation of Dewey's Pedagogy in Columbia as a Cultural Event--Javier Sáenz ObregÓn * Asia/Asia Minor *A History of the Present: Chinese Intellectuals,Confucianism and Pragmatism--Jie Qi * Dewey and the Ambivalent Modern Japan--Kentaro Ohkura *  Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.