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EDUCATING FOR DEMOCRACY

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Susan Jean Mayer

Theorizing the aims and character of distinctively democratic classrooom practices based upon

the philosophy of pragmatism and contemporary understandings of learning and development

CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

Mayer, S. J., O'Connor, C., & Lefstein, A. (2020). Distinctively democratic discourse in classrooms, in N. Mercer, R. Wegerif, & L. Major, (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic education, pp. 196-209. Routledge.

Mayer S. J. (2019). Missing traditions of Black curricular thought. Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, vol 11(1).

Mayer, S. J., (2018). The social world, the creative self, and the ongoing achievement of freedom, in H. Spector, R. Lake, & T. M. Kress, (Eds)., Maxine Greene and the pedagogy of social imagination: An intellectual genealogy, pp. 7-17. Routledge.

Mayer, S. J. (2016). Risking ourselves in classrooms. Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, vol 11(1).

Mayer, S. J. (2014). Engendering knowledge and its nurture. Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, vol 10(1).

Mayer, S. J. (2014). Realizing Dewey's constructs of continuity and interaction within democratic classrooms. Education and Culture.

Mayer, S. J. (2010). Dewey's dynamic integration of Vygotsky and Piaget, in G. Goodman, (ed.), Educational psychology reader: The art and science of how people learn, pp. 108-113. Peter Lang.

Mayer, S. J., (2010). “The Consciousness of Possibility,” in Dear Maxine, R. Lake, (ed.), New York: Teachers College Press.

Mayer, S. J. (2010). Of policy, poetry, and the potent notion of intelligence. Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, vol. 6(2).

Mayer, S. J. (2009). Conceptualizing interpretive authority in practical terms. Language and Education, 23(3) 199-216.

Mayer, S. J. (2007). The ideal as real: John Dewey and the social construction of moral coherence. Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, (4)2, 176-186.

Mayer, S. J. (2005).  The early evolution of Jean Piaget's clinical method.  History of Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 4, 362-382.

Mayer, S. J. (2003). From Piaget towards pedagogy via Inhelder: A methodological genealogy; in The Collected Papers of the First World Curriculum Studies Conference. East China Normal University Press.