Deweyan Transactionalism in Education: Beyond Self-action and Inter-action

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Philosophers of education are largely unaware of Dewey’s concept of transactionalism, yet it is implicit in much of his philosophy, educational or otherwise from the late 1890s onwards. Written by scholars from Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA, this book shows how transactionalism can offer an entirely new way of understanding teaching and learning, the sociocultural dimension of education, and educational research. The contributors show how the concept helps us to see beyond an array of false dualisms, such as mind versus body, self versus society, and organism versus environment, as well as an equally vast array of binaries, such as inside-outside, presence-absence, and male-female. They introduce the key critical ideas that transactionalism represents including emergence; living in a world without a within; the temporally and extensionally distributed nature of meaning, mind, and self. The theoretical discussion is grounded in practical discussions of educational issues and settings including museum education, coding and computer science, drama, teacher education, policy reform, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Cover Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Jim Garrison, Johan Öhman and Leif Östman 2 Philosophers’ Problems: Transaction in Philosophy and Life Frank X. Ryan 3 Transactional Perspectivalism: The Emergence of Language, Minds, Selves, and Temporal Sequences Jim Garrison 4 Transactional Systems of Exploration and Learning William J. Clancey 5 Democracy, Education, and Transaction: The Importance of Play in Dewey’s Thought Andrea Fiore 6 Applications of Transactional Methodologies for Analysis of Teaching and Learning Processes Pernilla Andersson and Johan Öhman 7 Analyzing Teachers’ Functional Coordination of Teaching Habits in the Encounter with Policy Reforms Malena Lidar and Eva Lundqvist 8 Learning through Encounters with the Physical Environment Susanne Klaar and Johan Öhman 9 The Dramaturgy of Facilitating Learning Processes: A Transactional Theory and Analytical Approach Katrien Van Poeck and Leif Östman 10 Transactants in Action—Examples from a Craft Remake School Project Hanna Hofverberg 11 Sensing Together: Transaction in Handicraft Education Jonas Risberg and Joacim Andersson 12 The Museum as Exploration Petra Hansson and Johan Öhman 13 Aesthetic Experiences and Artistic Creation: A Transactional Analysis of Learning in Computer Programming Michael Håkansson, Lennart Rolandsson and Leif Östman 14 A Transactional Perspective on Ethics and Morals Louise Sund and Johan Öhman 15 Transactional Analyses of the Entanglement of the Aesthetical, Moral and Political in Learning Processes Michael Håkansson and Leif Östman 16 Links between Pandemics, Politics, and People Ninitha Maivorsdotter and Joacim Andersson Notes References Index