Imagining Dewey

Awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardImagining Dewey features productive (re)interpretations of 21st century experience using the lens of John Dewey’s Art as Experience, through the doubled task of putting an array of international philosophers, educators, and artists-researchers in transactional dialogue and on equal footing in an academic text. This book is a pragmatic attempt to encourage application of aesthetic learning and living, ekphrasic interpretation, critical art, and agonist pluralism.There are two foci: (a) Deweyan philosophy and educational themes with (b) analysis and examples of how educators, artists, and researchers envision and enact artful meaning making. This structure meets the needs of university and high school audiences, who are accustomed to learning about challenging ideas through multimedia and aesthetic experience.Contributors are: James M. Albrecht, Adam I. Attwood, John Baldacchino, Carolyn L. Berenato, M. Cristina Di Gregori, Holly Fairbank, Jim Garrison, Amanda Gulla, Bethany Henning, Jessica Heybach, David L. Hildebrand, Ellyn Lyle, Livio Mattarollo, Christy McConnell Moroye, María-Isabel Moreno-Montoro, María Martínez Morales, Stephen M. Noonan, Louise G. Phillips, Scott L. Pratt, Joaquin Roldan, Leopoldo Rueda, Tadd Ruetenik, Leísa Sasso, Bruce Uhrmacher, David Vessey, Ricardo Marín Viadel, Sean Wiebe, Li Xu and Martha Patricia Espíritu Zavalza.

Patricia L. Maarhuis, PhD, is a researcher, educator, and artist at Washington State University. She has co-authored Parallaxic Praxis: Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Research Design (Vernon Press, 2018) and book chapters on art-based inquiry about experiences of violence.A. G. Rud, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education at Washington State University. Dr. Rud was president of the John Dewey Society 2017–2019 and edited its peer-reviewed international journal, Education and Culture, 2004–2010.