Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY -- ONE: The Necessity of Criticism: Dewey, Derrida, and Democratic Education Today -- TWO: John Dewey and the Necessity of a Democratic Civic Education -- THREE: Philosophy and Education: Richard Rorty's Considerations -- FOUR: Democracy Undefended: Education in the Age of Cognitive Science -- EDUCATION AND VALUES -- FIVE: Pragmatic Moral Realism: Education for Ethical Seriousness -- SIX: John Dewey's Post-Traditional Notion of Community -- SEVEN: Art as Education: Constructivism and Instrumentalism -- EIGHT: Dewey's Idea of Aesthetic Experience in the Processes of Education -- EDUCATION AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION -- NINE: Reconstruction Through Education -- TEN: John Dewey's Understanding of Democracy: Inspiring Political Education in Germany -- ELEVEN: Is Pragmatic Political Technology a Reasonable Possibility? -- TWELVE: Thick Democracy Too Much? Try Pragmatism Lite -- EDUCATION AND THE SELF -- THIRTEEN: Persons and Educational Values: Socrates, Buber and Dewey -- FOURTEEN: Pluralism and Democracy: Individualism by Another Name? -- FIFTEEN: Steps Toward an Ecological Consciousness: Loyalty to the Inherited Matrix of Experimental Intelligence -- SIXTEEN: Educating for Autonomy: Identity and Intersectional Selves -- SEVENTEEN: Learning about Possibility -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.