In recent decades, John Dewey's philosophy witnessed a renewal of interest among scholars in the United States as well as in other countries where the work of this American philosopher helped shape discourses organized to produce practical knowledge to form teaching practices in teaching preparation.23 In one way, the renewal of John Dewey's philosophy seems to resonate to what Robbie McClintock pointed out as the renewal of American culture. By this he referred to the need of "a renewed understanding of education as a deeply formative experience, one that will serve each person in a lifelong aspiration to fulfillment." For McClintock, however, the "educational profession, entangled in the status quo, cannot provide the necessary leadership" to a deeply formative experience, then it must be sought somewhere else