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Democracy and education / John Dewey.

By: Dewey, John, 1859-1952 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: [LaVergne, TN] : Simon & Brown, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 196 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781936041879 (paperback).Subject(s): Democracy and education | Education -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 370.1
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 developments 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 -- Theories of knowledge -- Theories of morals.

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 developments 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 -- Theories of knowledge -- Theories of morals.

CIT Module EDUC 9003 - Core reading.