Jeff Frank is a philosopher of education and teacher educator at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. His articles have appeared in leading journals of educational research, like Educational Researcher and the Teachers College Record, and he has published widely in philosophy of education journals, focusing on American philosophies of education and the intersections of philosophy and teaching. He is a big believer that engaging with philosophical work can make a practical difference in classrooms, and Teaching in the Now is meant to show how Dewey's work can improve the way we educate, and think about education, in our time.
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Preface: Thinking with Dewey Introduction: Waiting 1. Opening Complexities 2. The Future Depends on the Quality of the Present 3. Ideals and Experiments: Creating the Present 4. We Make the Self by Living Conclusion: Futures for the Present Acknowledgments Notes References Index
In this book, Jeffrey Frank makes a significant contribution to the field of philosophy in education and education in general. By making Dewey accessible and relevant to students, teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and parents, he invites readers to think differently with Dewey about education as preparation for the future. Through Dewey he argues that it is by providing rich, educative learning in the present that we prepare learners for the future, not the reverse. Both teachers and students are included in this notion of the present. By linking the current teacher/learner self to the ongoing self, making them not separate but continuous, Frank grounds us firmly in what is possible now.