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A companion to John Dewey's Democracy and education / D.C. Phillips.
LIBRA LB875.D5 P52 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, D. C. (Denis Charles), 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952. Democracy and education.
- Dewey, John.
- Democracy and education (Dewey, John).
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, John Dewey's magnum opus, Democracy and Education, is notoriously difficult and-dare we say it-a little dry. In this charming and often funny companion, noted philosopher of education D. C. Phillips goes chapter by chapter to bring Dewey to a twenty-first-century audience. Drawing on over fifty years of thinking about this book-and on his own experiences as an educator-he lends it renewed clarity and a personal touch, offering a lively accompaniment that helps us celebrate and be enriched by some of the most important ideas ever offered in education. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Education as a necessity of life
- Education as a social function
- Education as direction
- Education as growth
- Preparation, unfolding, and formal discipline
- Education as conservative and progressive
- The democratic conception in education
- Aims in education
- Natural development and social efficiency as aims
- Interest and discipline
- Experience and thinking
- Thinking in education
- The nature of method
- The nature of subject matter
- Play and work in the curriculum
- The significance of geography and history
- Science in the course of study
- Educational values
- Labor and leisure
- Intellectual and practical studies
- Physical and social studies : naturalism and humanism
- The individual and the world
- Vocational aspects of education
- Philosophy of education
- Theories of knowledge
- Theories of morals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226408231
- 022640823X
- 9780226408378
- 022640837X
- OCLC:
- 943710289
- Publisher Number:
- 99970375263
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