I'm probably just biased because I really like BGE and felt it, with some of his other works, were really formative to me for who I am today.
Dewey was an early 20th century philosopher of education that you have to read if you're becoming a teacher in the US. I don't remember too much but nothing of his stood out to me as iconoclastic, just that students shouldn't be passive subject in classrooms, that their interactivity with not only the subject but what the studied was key to their growth, and that a good education isn't just like, a training program, but teaches students to both inquire and solve their own inquiries. Idk generally pretty uncontroversial stuff. I didn't read the specific book mentioned in the list, so maybe it's a radical departure from his other pedagogical writings.
The non-Marxist things in this list are even more baffling, to be honest. Who the fuck is afraid of second-wave feminism in 2005? Also lol wtf Keynes.
Even most honest pro-free market economists recognize just how important Keynes was.
Seriously
Disagree with some of his theorizing, but he differently expanded the knowledge base
I mean it's 2020 and we're still up to our collective tits in terfs.
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I can't decide if John Dewey, Keynes, or BGE is the most hilarious from this list. Gun to my head, Dewey.
I actually understand BGE. It's dumb, but I get it.
This is the first I've even heard of Dewey.
I'm probably just biased because I really like BGE and felt it, with some of his other works, were really formative to me for who I am today.
Dewey was an early 20th century philosopher of education that you have to read if you're becoming a teacher in the US. I don't remember too much but nothing of his stood out to me as iconoclastic, just that students shouldn't be passive subject in classrooms, that their interactivity with not only the subject but what the studied was key to their growth, and that a good education isn't just like, a training program, but teaches students to both inquire and solve their own inquiries. Idk generally pretty uncontroversial stuff. I didn't read the specific book mentioned in the list, so maybe it's a radical departure from his other pedagogical writings.
Too lazy to look into it, but it's gotta be from some sort of reactionary publication.