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Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education — John Dewey

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

John Dewey

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 334 pages

Democracy and Education is John Dewey's essays on the philosophy of education. It examines how schooling, experience, and growth connect with democratic life and society. Listen for its influential thinking about learning, citizenship, and the aims of education.

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Contents

  1. DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION
  2. Transcriber's Note:
  3. Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life
  4. Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being.
  5. Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function
  6. Summary. The development within the young of the attitudes and
  7. Chapter Three: Education as Direction
  8. Summary. The natural or native impulses of the young do not agree with
  9. Chapter Four: Education as Growth
  10. Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity.
  11. Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
  12. Summary. The conception that the result of the educative process is
  13. Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive
  14. Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospectively or
  15. Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education
  16. Summary. Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds
  17. Chapter Eight: Aims in Education
  18. Summary. An aim denotes the result of any natural process brought to
  19. Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
  20. Summary. General or comprehensive aims are points of view for surveying
  21. Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline
  22. Summary. Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity
  23. Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking
  24. Summary. In determining the place of thinking in experience we first
  25. Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education
  26. Summary. Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which
  27. Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method
  28. Summary. Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an
  29. Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter
  30. Summary. The subject matter of education consists primarily of the

and 25 more chapters

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