Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationMacmillan, 1916 - 434 Seiten John 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. |
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Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education John Dewey Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1938 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.
Seite 101 - A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension of space of the number of individuals who participate in an interest so that each has to refer his own action to that of others...
Seite 62 - It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Seite 60 - Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.
Seite 59 - Translated into its educational equivalents, this means (i) that the educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end; and that (ii) the educational process is one of continual reorganizing, reconstructing, transforming.
Seite 179 - The sole direct path to enduring improvement in the methods of instruction and learning consists in centering upon the conditions which exact, promote, and test thinking.
Seite 138 - He begins the work with a restatement of his basal principle that "everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man.
Seite 383 - If we are willing to conceive education as the process of forming fundamental dispositions, intellectual and emotional, toward nature and fellow men...
Seite 360 - To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
Seite 3 - Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.