{"title":"Matthew Villeneuve","description":"Matthew Villeneuve (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe descent) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.","products":[{"product_id":"instrumental-indians-john-dewey-and-indigenous-schools-hardcover","title":"Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and Indigenous Schools - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of how settler colonialism shaped the thinking of America's leading philosopher of democracy and education, John Dewey\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Dewey is regarded as a towering figure in the history of American philosophy, widely remembered by educators as an advocate for experiential and child-centered pedagogy, as evidenced by the mantra \"learning by doing.\" At first blush, such ideas appear to a share strong resonance with Indigenous ways of teaching and learning. After all, Native educators have long emphasized the importance of hands-on learning drawn from close relationships to place. This resemblance begs the question: What might Dewey have learned from Indigenous people? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInstrumental Indians\u003c\/i\u003e shows that, despite such affinities, Dewey wrote a great deal about Indians as he imagined them rather than as they are. He did so through the lens of the frontier discourse, a pervasive cultural mythology that represented Indigenous people as savage foils and background actors in the settlement of a frontier across North America. Consequently, Dewey's imagined Indians became both instrumental and instrumentalized in his philosophy, a paradox that reduced Indigenous people to mere evidence for his pragmatism rather than as a contemporary constituency who might have benefited from its application. By instrumentalizing Indians, Dewey's contributions to American philosophy were made under the shadow of US settler colonialism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Matthew Villeneuve demonstrates, Dewey's disregard for his Indigenous contemporaries was far from harmless. His career coincided with the height of the federal Indian boarding school system, an era when Native families were subjected to the violence of imposed schooling. Where Dewey failed to offer a critique of such antidemocratic schools, a contemporary of his, Oneida philosopher of education Laura Cornelius, succeeded. In 1920, Cornelius offered an Indigenous theory of democracy and education, an alternative the US government failed to pursue. In \u003ci\u003eInstrumental Indians\u003c\/i\u003e, Villeneuve provides the first comprehensive account of Dewey's relationship to Indigenous people--one that challenges the philosopher's place in the canon of democratic education.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377744281823,"sku":"9781512829426","price":68.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/sUU7T8LXwu9781512829426.webp?v=1789240076"},{"product_id":"eileens-promise-paperback","title":"Eileen's Promise - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalvor Gupta, a freelance space salvager, feels like he's finally going to have a good day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of his ever-present, but somewhat annoying, AI navigational implant named Merv, Salvor has filled his ship's cargo hold with salvage, worth tens of thousands of credits, from a job out in the deep dark. Returning to Homestead, a giant orbiting ship around Saturn's moon Titan, he quickly learns that he's not in for a good day after all, and that information, long thought to be corrupted deep within his AI's memory banks holds a promise of salvation, if he can keep ahead of whoever wants to see him dead and make sure that promise is never kept...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68138692542687,"sku":"9798201343262","price":14.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZhDJ6uj2Gt9798201343262.webp?v=1792450302"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/matthew-villeneuve.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}