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After Robert Westbrook’s magistral study John Dewey and American Democracy (1991), research and literature on Dewey has exploded. In education alone ten to twenty doctoral dissertations (Tröhler 2000) books, articles or collections appear every year. Understanding John Dewey (Campbell 1995) was of central interest to anglo-saxon philosophy and history of education in the nineties. There is no similar interest in continental Europe; the renewal of interest is an anglo-saxon, and even more American concern that has no parallels in Europe. Here, philosophy of education has no core in theories of pragmatism, there are no philosophical schools centering Dewey and research concentrates on national approaches.
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Oelkers, J., Rhyn, H. (2000). Introduction. In: Oelkers, J., Rhyn, H. (eds) Dewey and European Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4185-7_1
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