Theories of Bildung and Growth: Connections and Controversies Between Continental Educational Thinking and American Pragmatism

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Signs of Realit....Pages 19-29
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Alienation, Bildung and Education....Pages 31-46
The Search for the Term Bildung in the German Classic....Pages 47-57
From Immanuel Kant to Johann Gottlieb Fichte – Concept of Education and German Idealism....Pages 59-86
Educability and Bildung in Herbart’s Theory of Education....Pages 87-105
Wilhelm Von Humboldt’s Contribution to a Theory of Bildung....Pages 107-124
Theodor w. Adorno – education as social critique....Pages 125-134
What is Bildung or....Pages 135-147
The German idea of Bildung and the Anti-Western Ideology....Pages 149-164
Some Things Never Change....Pages 165-182
Emersonian Self-Culture and Individual Growth....Pages 183-197
Horace Mann on Growth, the Pedagogical Method and Public School....Pages 199-211
William James’s Educational Will to Believe....Pages 213-226
The Origins and Educational Significance of John Dewey's Philosophy....Pages 227-245
George Herbert Mead....Pages 247-260
Experiencing Growth as a Natural Phenomenon....Pages 261-279
Dewey’s Progressive Education, Experience and Instrumental Pragmatism With Particular Reference to the Concept of Bildung....Pages 281-302
Between Bildung and Growth....Pages 303-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-317