Gabriel Moran

Course Readings:


Jan. 25, 2007

D. Rodgers, Progessive Politics

L. Cremin, Progressive Movement

W. Karp, Political Origins of Progressivism


Feb. 1, 2007

L. Menand, Metaphysical Club

C. Lasch, Woman's Movement

M. McGeer, Sex and Feminism

Jay Martin, Education of JD:1890s


Feb. 8, 2007

JD:Ethics, ch.1

JD:Christianity and Democracy


Feb. 15, 2007

M. White, Progressives and World War I

J. Barry, World War I

R. Hofstadter, Progressivism and War

JD: Force and Coercion

R. Bourne, Twilight of Idols


Feb. 22, 2007

JD: My Pedagogic Creed

JD: Child and Curriculum,

K. Egan, Getting it Wrong from the Beginning


March 1, 2007

JD:Schools of Tomorrow, ch 1

R. Westbrook, JD:Education: Early

M. McGeer, Education and Chilren's Welfare

R. Westbrook, JD:Vocational Education

A. Ryan, on JD: Democracy and Education


March 8, 2007

JD: Ethics, Conclusion

JD: Autobiographical Essay, 1930


March 22, 2007

JD: Common Faith, ch 1

The Humanist Manifesto

R. Westbrook, Dewey vs. Niebuhr

JD: Religion and our Schools


March 29, 2007

JD: Experience and Education

R. Westbrook, JD:Education:Later


April 5, 2007

G. Counts, Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order

JD: Use of Resources in Education

P. Graham, Progressive Education


April 12, 2007

A. Ryan, Critics of Dewey

L. Cremin, Progressive Education Assessed

R. McCormick, Progressivism Assessed

E. Ross, Social Control



April 19, 2007

D. Ravitch, Left Back, Conclusion

A. Bestor, Educational Wastelands

L. Mumford, Golden Day


JD:On Japan and China

C. Hedges, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

G. Moran, Outlawing War

R. Westbrook, JD:Progressivism

G. Moran, Is an Ethic of Nonviolence Possible?

C. Lasch, Progressivism and Social Control

R. Westbrook, JD: Ethics

R. Westbrook, JD:Vocational Education

JD:Art as Experience, chap 3

A. Ryan, on JD: Democracy and Education

G. Moran, The United States is Not America

JD: Ethics, ch.4

JD: JD: Ethics, conclusion

E. Ross, Social Control