Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

by John Dewey

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Contents

  1. Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life
  2. Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being
  3. Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function
  4. Summary. The development within the young of the attitudes and
  5. Chapter Three: Education as Direction
  6. Summary. The natural or native impulses of the young do not agree with
  7. Chapter Four: Education as Growth
  8. Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity
  9. Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
  10. Summary. The conception that the result of the educative process is
  11. Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive
  12. Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospectively or
  13. Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education
  14. Summary. Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds
  15. Chapter Eight: Aims in Education
  16. Summary. An aim denotes the result of any natural process brought to
  17. Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
  18. Summary. General or comprehensive aims are points of view for surveying
  19. Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline
  20. Summary. Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity
  21. Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking
  22. Summary. In determining the place of thinking in experience we first
  23. Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education
  24. Summary. Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which
  25. Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method
  26. Summary. Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an
  27. Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter
  28. Summary. The subject matter of education consists primarily of the
  29. Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum
  30. Summary. In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject
  31. Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History
  32. Summary. It is the nature of an experience to have implications which
  33. Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study
  34. Summary. Science represents the fruition of the cognitive factors in
  35. Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values
  36. Summary. Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value
  37. Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure
  38. Summary. Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the
  39. Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies
  40. Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing
  41. Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism
  42. Summary. The philosophic dualism between man and nature is reflected in
  43. Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World
  44. Summary. True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip
  45. Chapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of Education
  46. Summary. A vocation signifies any form of continuous activity which
  47. Chapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of Education
  48. Summary. After a review designed to bring out the philosophic issues
  49. Chapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledge
  50. Summary. Such social divisions as interfere with free and full
  51. Chapter Twenty-six: Theories of Morals
  52. Summary. The most important problem of moral education in the school

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