The Reception of Dewey in the Hispanic World |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Jaime?NubiolaEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Filosofia y Letras Filosofia, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplano, Spain |
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Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to describe Dewey’s reception in the Spanish-speaking countries that constitute the Hispanic world.
Without any doubt, it can be said that in the past century Spain and the countries of South America have been a world apart,
lagging far behind the mainstream Western world. It includes a number of names and facts about the early translation of Dewey’s
works in Spain, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Argentina in the first half of the century and a brief explanation of the decline
of Dewey in the second half. To a great extent, Dewey’s conception of education was immersed in the international movement
of reform that started at the turn of the century and would eventually slowly but surely, renovate the structure of the educational
system throughout the entire century, including that of South America. But it is equally clear that the Spanish-speaking countries
have displayed a general ignorance of Dewey and, by extension, of American pragmatism during most of the century. In spite
of mutual incomprehension, a deep affinity between Dewey’s pragmatism and Hispanic philosophy is suggested in this paper,
anticipating that the gradual process of democratization of Spain and the Hispanic countries of South America may be in some
sense related to the rediscovery of Dewey and to the application of his key ideas in education. After decades of neglect of
Dewey and of his contribution, there is a strong feeling not only that his conception of things is important to understand
the last century but that Dewey – along with Peirce and other American classical pragmatists – may very well prove to be a
key thinker for the XXIst century also in the Hispanic world. Along this vein, the recent resurgence of pragmatism can be
understood not as the latest academic fashion but the occasion to start to close the gap between the two worlds. |
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Keywords: | educational thinking Hispanic world pragmatism John Dewey South America |
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