John Dewey and the Liberal Science of Community

Adaptation as a Governance Practice

“…The French philosopher and social historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984 provides another view on practices of problematisation. In the Foucauldian approach, different forms of knowledge and products of knowledge compete, construct and challenge adaptation and how it is understood.…”

Chapter 8: Is Dewey’s Educational Vision Still Viable?

“…What is the potential relationship of scientific social inquiry and organized intelligence to each of these? Kaufman-Osborn (1984) holds that Dewey conceives of the local community as "the site upon which the knowledge of modern science is to fuse with the virtues that can only be cultivated within intimate surroundings" (p. 1154). In the context of local communities, scientific findings will be made concrete, while the parochialism and lack of understanding of local community life will be enlarged and enlightened by scientific findings.…”

“…Consequently, all bonds that restrict the ability to reorganize must be weakened. Citizens must be willing to shed "the more concrete bonds of family, religion, neighborhood, custom, and so forth whenever these intrude upon their commitment to the communities of interest which they share with others whom they know but cannot see" (Kaufman-Osborn, 1984, pp. 1158-1159.…”

The Scientification of the Study of Politics: Some Observations on the Behavioral Evolution in Political Science

“…It did not show up in political science journals until the 1960s: Joan Bondurant (1963) in the Journal of Conflict Resolution , and Fredric Cheyette (1963) in Political Science Quarterly . It appeared in the pages of the Journal of Politics in 1984 (Kaufman‐Osborn 1984). Thus, the word has been around for a long time, though its use is not frequent.…”