MTU Cork Library Catalogue

Democracy and education /

Dewey, John, 1859-1952

Democracy and education / John Dewey. - 263 pages : 23 cm

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: naturalism and humanism -- The individual and the world -- Vocational aspects of education -- Philosophy of education -- Theories of knowledge -- Theories of morals.

9781406861020 (paperback) 1406861022 (paperback)


Education

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