Democracy And EducationJohn Dewey’s Democracy and Education addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies in education and for the necessity of universal education for the advancement of self and society. First published in 1916, Democracy and Education is regarded as the seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century. |
Contents
Education as a Necessity of Life | 1 |
Education as a Social Function | 10 |
Education as Direction | 23 |
Education as Growth | 41 |
Preparation Unfolding and Formal Discipline | 54 |
Education as Conservative and Progressive | 69 |
The Democratic Conception in Education | 81 |
Aims in Education | 100 |
Play and Work in the Curriculum | 194 |
The Significance of Geography and History | 207 |
Science in the Course of Study | 219 |
Educational Values | 231 |
Labor and Leisure | 250 |
Intellectual and Practical Studies | 262 |
Naturalism and lumanism | 277 |
The Individual and the World | 291 |
Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims | 111 |
Interest and Discipline | 124 |
Experience and Thinking | 139 |
Thinking in Education | 152 |
The Nature of Method | 164 |
The Nature of Subject Matter | 180 |
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Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education John Dewey Limited preview - 1997 |
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