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.
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,...
In this book, Dewey tries to criticize and expand on the educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. Dewey's ideas were seldom adopted in America's public schools, although a number of...
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Life is growth. Education is therefore essential to human life as it fosters for individuals the capacity to perpetuate growth. This is the theory expressed by John Dewey in this critical review of the philosophy of education.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
In this book Dewey sought to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic (or proto-democratic) educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato.
Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, - entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain ...
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Considered by many to be a landmark examination into the philosophy of education and its importance in a democratic society, John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" will find an appropriate audience among students of not only education, but ...
A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has ...
"Democracy and Education" is a truly wonderful book with none of the dogmatic pretense or "scientific methods" features in so many competing treatises. John Dewey's ideas are fresh, original, and beautifully crafted.
For Dewey, democratic education teaches young people to become creative individuals who contribute to society. This edition makes Democracy and Education come alive for a new generation of readers.