Democracy and Education,9780486433998

Democracy and Education

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ISBN13: 9780486433998
ISBN10: 0486433994
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-05-20
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

The distinguished author of books on psychology, ethics, and politics, John Dewey specialized in the philosophy of education. In this landmark work on public education, Dewey discusses methods of providing quality public education in a democratic society. First published close to 90 years ago,Democracy and Educationsounded the call for a revolution in education, stressing growth, experience, and activity as factors that promote a democratic character in students and lead to the advancement of self and society. Unabridged reproduction of the classic 1916 edition.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I EDUCATION AS A NECESSITY OF LIFE:
Renewal of Life by Transmission
1(3)
Education and Communication
4(2)
The Place of Formal Education
6(3)
Summary
9(1)
CHAPTER II EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL FUNCTION:
The Nature and Meaning of Environment
10(1)
The Social Environment
11(5)
The Social Medium as Educative
16(2)
The School as a Special Environment
18(4)
Summary
22(1)
CHAPTER III EDUCATION AS DIRECTION:
The Environment as Directive
22(3)
Modes of Social Direction
25(7)
Imitation and Social Psychology
32(4)
Some Applications to Education
36(3)
Summary
39(1)
CHAPTER IV EDUCATION AS GROWTH:
The Conditions of Growth
39(5)
Habits as Expressions of Growth
44(4)
The Educational Bearings of the Conception of Development
48(3)
Summary
51(1)
CHAPTER V
PREPARATION, UNFOLDING, AND FORMAL DISCIPLINE:
Education as Preparation
51(2)
Education as Unfolding
53(5)
Education as Training of Faculties
58(7)
Summary
65(1)
CHAPTER VI EDUCATION AS CONSERVATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE:
Education as Formation
66(3)
Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection
69(4)
Education as Reconstruction
73(3)
Summary
76(1)
CHAPTER VII THE DEMOCRATIC CONCEPTION IN EDUCATION:
The Implications of Human Association
77(5)
The Democratic Ideal
82(2)
The Platonic Educational Philosophy
84(3)
The "Individualistic" Ideal of the Eighteenth Century
87(2)
Education as National and as Social
89(6)
Summary
95(1)
CHAPTER VIII AIMS IN EDUCATION:
The Nature of an Aim
96(3)
The Criteria of Good Aims
99(3)
Applications in Education
102(4)
Summary
106(1)
CHAPTER IX NATURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL EFFICIENCY AS AIMS:
Nature as Supplying the Aim
106(7)
Social Efficiency as Aim
113(3)
Culture as Aim
116(2)
Summary
118(1)
CHAPTER X INTEREST AND DISCIPLINE:
The Meaning of the Terms
119(6)
The Importance of the Idea of Interest in Education
125(5)
Some Social Aspects of the Question
130(2)
Summary
132(1)
CHAPTER XI EXPERIENCE AND THINKING:
The Nature of Experience
133(6)
Reflection in Experience
139(6)
Summary
145(1)
CHAPTER XII THINKING IN EDUCATION:
The Essentials of Method
146(11)
Summary
157(1)
CHAPTER XIII THE NATURE OF METHOD:
The Unity of Subject Matter and Method
158(5)
Method as General and as Individual
163(3)
The Traits of Individual Method
166(7)
Summary
173(1)
CHAPTER XIV THE NATURE OF SUBECT MATTER:
Subject Matter of Educator and of Learner
173(4)
The Development of Subject Matter in the Learner
177(5)
Science or Rationalized Knowledge
182(2)
Subject Matter as Social
184(2)
Summary
186(1)
CHAPTER XV PLAY AND WORK IN THE CURRICULUM:
The Place of Active Occupations in Education
186(2)
Available Occupations
188(6)
Work and Play
194(4)
Summary
198(1)
CHAPTER XVI THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY:
Extension of Meaning of' Primary Activities
198(3)
The Complementary Nature of History and Geography
201(4)
History and Present Social Life
205(4)
Summary
209(1)
CHAPTER XVII SCIENCE IN THE COURSE OF STUDY:
The Logical and the Psychological
209(5)
Science and Social Progress
214(5)
Naturalism and Humanism in Education
219(2)
Summary
221(1)
CHAPTER XVIII EDUCATIONAL VALUES:
The Nature of Realization or Appreciation
222(6)
The Valuation of Studies
228(5)
The Segregation and Organization of Values
233(6)
Summary
239(1)
CHAPTER XIX LABOR AND LEISURE:
The Origin of the Opposition
240(4)
The Present Situation
244(6)
Summary
250(1)
CHAPTER XX INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL STUDIES:
The Opposition of Experience and True Knowledge
251(4)
The Modern Theory of Experience and Knowledge
255(5)
Experience as Experimentation
260(4)
Summary
264(2)
CHAPTER XXI PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES: NATURALISM AND HUMANISM:
The Historic Background of Humanistic Study
266(3)
The Modern Scientific Interest in Nature
269(4)
The Present Educational Problem
273(5)
Summary
278(1)
CHAPTER XXII THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE WORLD:
Mind as Purely Individual
279(2)
Individual Mind as the Agent of Reorganization
281(8)
Educational Equivalents
289(4)
Summary
293(1)
CHAPTER XXIII VOCATIONAL ASPECTS OF EDUCATION:
The Meaning of Vocation
294(2)
The Place of Vocational Aims in Education
296(3)
Present Opportunities and Dangers
299(7)
Summary
306(2)
CHAPTER XXIV PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION:
A Critical Review
308(2)
The Nature of Philosophy
310(8)
Summary
318(1)
CHAPTER XXV THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE:
Continuity versus Dualism
319(6)
Schools of Method
325(5)
Summary
330(1)
CHAPTER XXVI THEORIES OF MORALS:
The Inner and Outer
330(5)
The Opposition of Duty and Interest
335(3)
Intelligence and Character
338(3)
The Social and the Moral
341(3)
Summary
344(2)
INDEX 346

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