| Description |
xii, 434 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Text-book series in education
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| Contents |
Education as a necessity of life -- Education as a social function -- Education as direction -- Education as growth -- Preparation, unfolding, and formal discipline -- Education as conservative and progressive -- The democratic conception in education -- Aims in education -- Natural development and social efficiency as aims -- Interest and discipline -- Experience and thinking -- Thinking in education -- The nature of method -- The nature of subject matter -- Play and work in the curriculum -- The significance of geography and history -- Science in the course of study -- Educational values -- Labor and leisure -- Intellectual and practical studies -- Physical and social studies : naturalism and humanism -- The individual and the world -- Vocational aspects of education -- Philosophy of education -- Theories of knowledge -- Theories of morals. |
| Form |
Digital reproduction of original also available on the Internet. |
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Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Social aspects.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dewey, John, 1859-1952. Democracy and education. New York : Macmillan, 1916 (OCoLC)573083895 |
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