The Social Frontier was a radical journal, which saw the school as an agent of social change. It was published at Teachers College for six years, starting in 1934. After that it was sponsored by the Progressive Education Association and changed its title to Frontiers of Democracy. The final issue was published in 1943. The writers and editors for Social Frontier / Frontiers of […]
Yesterday’s election of Barack Obama as President of the United States was not only promising for our future, but was also a moving reaffirmation of all that America can be. His Presidency may not fulfill all the dreams that the candidacy inspired; some things may not change at all. But it reminds me of what […]
[See followup after the event at Dáil na nÓg Fairsay campaign.] What appears to be an exciting conference on youth, media and democracy is coming up on April 18-19, 2008 at Dublin Institute of Technology and the Digital Hub. It’s called Youth Media Democr&cy, “an inaugural conference exploring the effects and opportunities of new media […]
Bruce, Bertram C. (2023, February 7). Project-based learning in the community. Kathmandu, Nepal: King’s College. Bruce, Bertram C. (2022, March 4). The classroom and daily life. San Francisco, CA: World Innovations Network. Bruce, Bertram C. (2021, February 18). Intelligence, artificial & natural, for a sustainable future. Kathmandu, Nepal: Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Bruce, Bertram C. (2019, October […]
Bruce, Bertram C. (2018, February 27). Launch of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Economic Issues, Center for Research in Development, King’s College. Kathmandu, Nepal. Bruce, Bertram C. (2017, June 30). The future of learning. Essential Questions for Educators Everywhere. National College of Ireland, Dublin. Bruce, Bertram C. (2017, June 27). What makes a good teacher?. Essential Questions for […]
Guest Editor: Chip Bruce Schools editor: Andy Kaplan This symposium shares ways to think about democratic education in today’s world, and how we should plan for the future. How should issues such as indigenous people’s rights, racism, women’s rights, authoritarian governments, the concentration of wealth, the climate crisis, pandemics, and more make us analyze, discuss, and […]
My experience with Science for the People (SftP), continuing to this day, but primarily in the 70s and 80s, helped me develop both a stronger commitment to social justice and theoretical tools for enacting that. I was a member of the Sociobiology Study Group (Jon Beckwith, Freda Salzman, mArion Lowe, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, […]
As a land grant university, the University of Illinois explicitly values service, along with scholarship and teaching. Communication No. 9 Its Communication No. 9 is very specific: All faculty members should include three types of service in Section IV of the dossier: (1) public engagement, outreach, and/or Extension; (2) professional and/or disciplinary; and (3) university […]
Bruce, Bertram C., & Céline Jung (2019). Préface à la traduction en français de: Democracy and Social Ethics, Jane Addams (1902). In Démocratie et éthique sociale (pp. 7-31). Dijon, France: Editions Raison et Passions. Bruce, Bertram C. (2015). What Jane Addams tells us about early childhood education. In Turkish in Ebru Aktan Acar (ed.). Erken […]
Bruce, Bertram C. (2022). Beyond the classroom walls: Imagining the future of education from community schools to communiversities. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Bruce, Bertram C. (2021). Thinking with maps: Understanding the world through spatialization. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Bruce, Bertram C. (2020). Education’s ecosystems: Learning through life. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Jane Addams. (2019). Démocratie […]
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