Democracy and Education

by John Dewey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447418160
Publisher:	Case Press
Publication date:	07/15/2011
Pages:	562
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

John Dewey (1859–1952) was one of the great American pragmatist philosophers. He helped run the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago, and as a professor at Columbia University he taught students who brought his ideas about democratic education to places such as India, China, and Mexico.

Nicholas Tampio is a professor of political science at Fordham University. He is the author of Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach (2022) and Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy (2018).

Table of Contents

1	Education as a Necessity of Life	1
2	Education as a Social Function	10
3	Education as Direction	23
4	Education as Growth	41
5	Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline	54
6	Education as Conservative and Progressive	69
7	The Democratic Conception in Education	81
8	Aims in Education	100
9	Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims	111
10	Interest and Discipline	124
11	Experience and Thinking	139
12	Thinking in Education	152
13	The Nature of Method	164
14	The Nature of Subject Matter	180
15	Play and Work in the Curriculum	194
16	The Significance of Geography and History	207
17	Science in the Course of Study	219
18	Educational Values	231
19	Labor and Leisure	250
20	Intellectual and Practical Studies	262
21	Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism	277
22	The Individual and the World	291
23	Vocational Aspects of Education	306
24	Philosophy of Education	321
25	Theories of Knowledge	333
26	Theories of Morals	346
	Index	361

Editorial Reviews

After more than a hundred years, Democracy and Education is sprightly with Nicholas Tampio’s help,filled with insight that can and should guide future teachers, school leaders, education committees, and officers, as well as parents and guardians. This edition will be of great use to students and scholars of education, politics, and philosophy because of Tampio’s outstanding introduction of the work and its central themes and his insightful short statements at the start of each chapter.

Eric Thomas Weber

A new edition of Democracy and Education is timely, especially as renewed interest in Dewey’s work is growing around the world. Nicholas Tampio’s edition will help students and scholars alike navigate Dewey’s writing style and uncover complex ideas that continue to have applied significance in school and society today.

Sarah Stitzlein

At the heart of John Dewey’s 1916 Democracy and Education is a concern with how to educate us for democratic citizenship—how to make us appropriately responsive to the world around us. Nicholas Tampio is the ideal philosopher to edit this new edition of Dewey’s magisterial text and help us understand its powerful and underappreciated legacy. This is a volume that will generate a great deal of energy, and it will do so at a time when the health of our own education for democracy in the United States and elsewhere is in doubt.

Melvin L. Rogers

Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to bring to light what it means to educate and how public education serves as the foundation of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political issues as well. Psychology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are all subjects that John Dewey focused his talents on. Democracy and Education was originally published in 1916, but despite the passage of time, John Dewey remains one of the greatest educational philosophers. 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. Dewey promotes a philosophy of education that focuses on freedom of the mind through guided and directed social activity. Many of Dewey's catch phrases, such as "learning by doing," are now often repeated in educational circles. See for yourself why "Democracy and Education" still stands the test of time.

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