Screen LibraryA companion to John Dewey's Democracy and education /
"This year [2016] marks the centenary publication of John Deweyâ#x80;#x99;s magnum opus, Democracy and Education. Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult andâ#x80;#x94;dare we say itâ#x80;#x94;a little dry. In this charming and often funn...
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, IL : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"This year [2016] marks the centenary publication of John Deweyâ#x80;#x99;s magnum opus, Democracy and Education. Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult andâ#x80;#x94;dare we say itâ#x80;#x94;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 bookâ#x80;#x94;and on his own experiences as an educatorâ#x80;#x94;he lends it renewed clarity and a personal touch that proves its lasting importance. Phillips bridges several critical pitfalls of Democracy and Education that often prevent contemporary readers from fully understanding it. Where Dewey sorely needs a detailed example to illustrate a pointâ#x80;#x94;and the times are manyâ#x80;#x94;Phillips steps in, presenting cases from his own classroom experiences. Where Dewey casually refers to the works of people like Hegel, Herbart, and Lockeâ#x80;#x94;common knowledge, apparently, in 1916â#x80;#x94;Phillips fills in the necessary background. And where Dewey gets convoluted or is even flat-out wrong, Phillips does what few other scholars would do: he takes Dewey to task. The result is a lively accompaniment that helps us celebrate and be enriched by some of the most important ideas ever offered in education." -- from publisher's website. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 198 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-198). |
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9780226408378 022640837X 9780226408231 022640823X |
| Index Number: | LB875 |
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G40-052 G40-02 |
| Call Number: | G40-02/P558 |
| 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. |