Democracy and education : an introduction to the philosophy of education / John Dewey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Physical Description:

vi, 378 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Free Press, a division of MacMillan Pub. Co. ; London : Collier MacMillan Publishers, 1944.

Summary:

Addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society and the need to fuse vocational and contemplative studies into a universal education.

Contents:

1. Education as a necessity of life

2. Education as a social function

3. Education as direction

4. Education as growth

5. Preparation, unfolding, and formal discipline

6. Education as conservative and progressive

7. The democratic conception in education

8. Aims in education

9. Natural development and social efficiency as aims

10. Interest and discipline

11. Experience and thinking

12. Thinking in education

13. The nature of method

14. The nature of subject matter

15. Play and work in the curriculum

16. The significance of geography and history

17. Science in the course of study

18. Educational values

19. Labor and leisure

20. Intellectual and practical studies

21. Physical and social studies: naturalism and humanism

22. The individual and the world

23. Vocational aspects of education

24. Philosophy of education

25. Theories of knowledge

26. Theories of morals.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0029073707

9780029073704

0684836319

9780684836317

OCLC:

10795997