We are attracted by our heart's desires. In love we passionately desire to possess the good, or at least what we perceive to be the good. But what we seek soon comes to possess us in thought, feeling, and action. It becomes who we are, the content of our character. In this paper I want to talk about education and Eros. I want to talk about Eros as a creative poetic force that makes new meanings...

Th is essay constructs a comprehensive view of Dewey’s approach to history, the historical method, and history education. Drawing on Dewey’s approach to the subject at the University of Chicago Laboratory School (1896-1904), Dewey’s chapter on the historical method in Logic: A Th eory of Inquiry (1938), and a critique of Dewey’s philosophy of history that appeared in the American Historical Rev...

John Dewey lived and worked in an environment where the manual training movement was ever present. For Dewey, his own unique version of manual training is labeled “occupations.” Nevertheless, over the years, what Dewey meant by occupations has been either misinterpreted or ignored for a plethora of reasons. Th is manual training climate that Dewey was a part of was dominant and Dewey could not ...