Democracy and education
By: by John Dewey
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [LaVergne, TN]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781613822814
Subjects: Education; Philosophy; Social aspects
Description: Examines the various methods of providing quality public education in a democratic society stressing growth, experience, and activity as factors that promote a democratic character in students.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1; title: Education as a Necessity of Life -- -- Chapter II; title: Education as a Social Function -- -- Chapter III; title: Education as Direction -- -- Chapter IV; title: Education as Growth -- -- Chapter V; title: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline -- -- Chapter VI; title: Education as Conservative and Progressive -- -- Chapter VII; title: The Democratic Conception in Education -- -- Chapter VIII; title: Aims in Education -- -- Chapter IX; title: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims -- -- Chapter X; title: Interest and Discipline -- -- Chapter XI; title: Experience and Thinking -- -- Chapter XII; title: Thinking in Education -- -- Chapter XIII; title: The Nature of Method -- -- Chapter XIV; title: The Nature of Subject Matter -- -- Chapter XV; title: Play and Work in the Curriculum -- -- Chapter XVI; title: The Significance of Geography and History -- -- Chapter XVII; title: Science in the Course of Study -- -- Chapter XVIII; title: Educational Values -- -- Chapter XIX; title: Labor and Leisure -- -- Chapter XX; title: Intellectual and Practical Studies -- -- Chapter XXI; title: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism -- -- Chapter XXII; title: The Individual and the World -- -- Chapter XXIII; title: Vocational Aspects of Education -- -- Chapter XXIV; title: Philosophy of Education -- -- Chapter XXV; title: Theories of Knowledge -- -- Chapter XXVI; title: Theories of Morals.