Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose

Kerry T. Burch is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of Democratic Transformations: Eight Conflicts in the Negotiation of American Identity (recipient of the 2014 Society of Professors of Education Book Award) and Eros as the Educational Principle of Democracy (2000). In his teaching and research, he is committed to a vision of democratic moral education anchored in the need to keep the enlightenment-oriented spirit of education alive.

1. Introduction.- 2. Educationalizing Jefferson's Revolutionary Thought.- 3. 20th Century Jeffersonian Intervention: John Dewey on the Predicaments of American Democracy.- 4. Reading George S. Counts's "A Call to the Teachers of the Nation" as a Jeffersonian Text.- 5. To Protest Against Standing Armies.- 6. Freedom from Monopolies.- 7. An Education Amendment.- 8. Crystallizing the Educational Implications of Jefferson's Revolutionary Theory.- 9. Reimagining Educational Purpose Through Jeffersonian Categories.- 10. Jeffersonian Directions in Curricular Renovation.