Dewey, Education, and the Mediterranean

Maura Striano is Professor of Education at the University of Naples Federico II and Director of the Centre for the Active and Participatory Inclusion of the Students (SINAPSI). She has published widely on Dewey and pragmatism in education and is co-director of the series “Dewey Studies”. Ronald G. Sultana is Professor of Education at the University of Malta, and Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research. He has published widely on education and equity, and is Editor of the series “Comparative Education and the Mediterranean Region”.

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Notes on Contributors



Introduction: A Mediterranean Dewey … a Deweyan

Mediterranean

 Maura Striano and Ronald G. Sultana



1 Dewey and Democratic Lifelong Education

 Kenneth Wain



2 Dewey’s Educational and Democratic Ideals: Conditions for

Implementation in Mediterranean Arab Countries

 Radhi H. Al-Mabuk and Abdullah F. Alrebh



3 John Dewey’s Improbable Mediterraneity

 John Baldacchino



4 An Indigenous Foreigner in Portugal: John Dewey’s Latent Presence

in the Early 20th Century Works of the New School Quartet

 Jorge Ramos do Ó, Tomás Vallera, Tiago Almeida, António

Henriques and Ana Luísa Paz



5 Revisiting and Reimagining Schools for Shared Life and Peace in a

Conflict-Ridden Region: A Deweyan Lens

 Khalid Arar and Anna Saiti



6 Dewey and the ‘Sheikh,’ or the Paradox of the Algerian School

 Mohamed Miliani



7 Current Issues of Democracy and Education in Tunisia as Interpreted

through Dewey’s Approach

 Abdeljalil Akkari



8 Educational Institutions and John Dewey in Early 20th Century

Egypt

 Farida Makar



9 John Dewey’s Influence in Shaping Israel’s Educational Philosophy

and Practice (1930s–2010s)

 Gadi Bialik and Yuval Dror



10 The Effect of Dewey’s Educational Philosophy and Practice on the

Palestinian Education System

 Anwar Hussein-Abdel Razeq



11 John Dewey’s Impact on Greek Education and Pedagogical

Thought

 Dimitrios Foteinos and Michael Kassotakis



12 Learner-Centred Perspectives in School Curricula and Teacher

Education: The Impact of John Dewey’s Visit to Turkey in the Early

Republican Era

 Gökçe Gökalp and Ali Yildirim



13 John Dewey’s ‘Civilizing’ Mission and His Developmentalist

Utopianism

 Marianna Papastephanou



14 Schools of Tomorrow – Tomorrow’s Schools: A Reading of a

Maltese Document from a Deweyan Perspective

 Daniela Mercieca and Duncan P. Mercieca



15 Dewey’s Impact on Italian Culture: A Long-Lasting Influence

 Maura Striano



16 Reconstructing Dewey, Rethinking Education: The Legacy of John

Dewey’s Educational Thought and the Development of the Sciences de

l’Éducation in France Since 1967

 Samuel Renier



17 The Pedagogy of John Dewey in Spain: Between Educational

Innovation and Theoretical Challenge

 José González-Monteagudo and Patricia Delgado-

Granados