Democracy and Education by John Dewey : With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction (Patricia H. Hinchey) -- Chapter I. Education as a Necessity of Life -- 1. Renewal of Life by Transmission -- 2. Education and Communication -- 3. The Place of Formal Education -- Summary -- Chapter II. Education as a Social Function -- 1. The Nature and Meaning of Environment -- 2. The Social Environment -- 3. The Social Medium as Educative -- 4. The School as a Special Environment -- Summary -- Chapter III. Education as Direction -- 1. The Environment as Directive -- 2. Modes of Social Direction -- 3. Imitation and Social Psychology -- 4. Some Applications to Education -- Summary -- Chapter IV. Education as Growth -- 1. The Conditions of Growth -- 2. Habits as Expressions of Growth -- 3. The Educational Bearings of the Conception of Development -- Summary -- Chapter V. Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline -- 1. Education as Preparation -- 2. Education as Unfolding -- 3. Education as Training of Faculties -- Summary -- Chapter VI. Education as Conservative and Progressive -- 1. Education as Formation -- 2. Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection -- 3. Education as Reconstruction -- Summary -- Chapter VII. The Democratic Conception in Education -- 1. The Implications of Human Association -- 2. The Democratic Ideal -- 3. The Platonic Educational Philosophy -- 4. The "Individualistic" Ideal of the Eighteenth Century -- 5. Education as National and as Social -- Summary -- Chapter VIII. Aims in Education -- 1. The Nature of an Aim -- 2. The Criteria of Good Aims -- 3. Applications in Education -- Summary -- Chapter XI. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims -- 1. Nature as Supplying the Aim -- 2. Social Efficiency as Aim -- 3. Culture as Aim -- Summary -- Chapter X. Interest and Discipline -- 1. The Meaning of the Terms.

2. The Importance of the Idea of Interest in Education -- 3. Some Social Aspects of the Question -- Summary -- Chapter XI. Experience and Thinking -- 1. The Nature of Experience -- 2. Reflection in Experience -- Summary -- Chapter XII. Thinking in Education -- 1. The Essentials of Method -- Summary -- Chapter XIII. The Nature of Method -- I. The Unity of Subject Matter and Method -- 2. Method as General and as Individual -- 3. The Traits of Individual Method -- Summary -- Chapter XIV. The Nature of Subject Matter -- 1. Subject Matter of Educator and of Learner -- 2. The Development of Subject Matter in the Learner -- 3. Science or Rationalized Knowledge -- 4. Subject Matter as Social -- Summary -- Chapter XV. Play and Work in the Curriculum -- 1. The Place of Active Occupations in Education -- 2. Available Occupations -- 3. Work and Play -- Summary -- Chapter XVI. The Significance of Geography and History -- 1. Extension of Meaning of Primary Activities -- 2. The Complementary Nature of History and Geography -- 3. History and Present Social Life -- Summary -- Chapter XVII. Science in the Course of Study -- 1. The Logical and the Psychological -- 2. Science and Social Progress -- 3. Naturalism and Humanism in Education -- Summary -- Chapter XVIII. Educational Values -- 1. The Nature of Realization or Appreciation -- 2. The Valuation of Studies -- 3. The Segregation and Organization of Values -- Summary -- Chapter XIX. Labor and Leisure -- 1. The Origin of the Opposition -- 2. The Present Situation -- Summary -- Chapter XX. Intellectual and Practical Studies -- 1. The Opposition of Experience and True Knowledge -- 2. The Modern Theory of Experience and Knowledge -- 3. Experience as Experimentation -- Summary -- Chapter XXI. Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism -- 1. The Historic Background of Humanistic Study.

2. The Modern Scientific Interest in Nature -- 3. The Present Educational Problem -- Summary -- Chapter XXII. The Individual and the World -- 1. Mind as Purely Individual -- 2. Individual Mind as the Agent of Reorganization -- 3. Educational Equivalents -- Summary -- Chapter XXIII. Vocational Aspects of Education -- 1. The Meaning of Vocation -- 2. The Place of Vocational Aims in Education -- 3. Present Opportunities and Dangers -- Summary -- Chapter XXIV. Philosophy of Education -- 1. A Critical Review -- 2. The Nature of Philosophy -- Summary -- Chapter XXV. Theories of Knowledge -- 1. Continuity versus Dualism -- 2. Schools of Method -- Summary -- Chapter XXVI. Theories of Morals -- 1. The Inner and the Outer -- 2. The Opposition of Duty and Interest -- 3. Intelligence and Character -- 4. The Social and the Moral -- Summary -- About the Text -- About the Series.

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