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Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to illuminate what it means to educate and how public education serves as the bedrock of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political... Read Full Overview

John Dewey's Democracy and Education is a landmark work in educational theory, addressing the relationship between education and democracy. Dewey provides a comprehensive examination of educational theory and practice, focusing on the development of the individual and the role... Read Full Overview

The American philosopher John Dewey transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. In Democracy and Education (1916), Dewey opposed the model of education in which adults lecture at students and students follow strict rules. Instead, Dewey called... Read Full Overview

John Dewey (1859-1952), writer of Democracy and Education, was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. The ideas like those in Democracy and Education have been very influential to education and social reform. In the classic book, Democracy and Education,... Read Full 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... Read Full Overview

The following pages embody an endeavor to detect and state the ideas implied in a democratic society and to apply these ideas to the problems of the enterprise of education. The discussion includes an indication of the constructive aims and methods of public education as seen... Read Full Overview

"Democracy and Education" is a truly wonderful book with none of the dogmatic pretense or "scientific methods" features in so many competing treatises. John Dewey's ideas are fresh, original, and beautifully crafted. Rather than presenting Dewey's ideas as explicit recommendations... Read Full Overview

First published in 1915, John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" is considered by many to be a landmark examination into the philosophy of education and its importance in a democratic society. In this influential treatise, Dewey argues for a progressive model of education because... Read Full Overview

John Dewey's Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education seeks to both critique and further the educational philosophies espoused by both Rousseau and Plato. Dewey found that Rousseau's ideas overemphasized the individual, whereas Plato's did the same... Read Full Overview

Psychology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are among the subjects on which John Dewey focused his authorial talents -- but the crux of his works lies in his philosophy of education. Democracy and Education , originally published in 1916, is his landmark work in the field... Read Full Overview

Author of Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, John Dewey (1859-1952), was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential to education and social reform. John Dewey's most significant... Read Full Overview

John Dewey's best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Educa­tion, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: "It illuminates directly... Read Full Overview

The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller... Read Full Overview

"Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. All of these words mean that it implies attention to the conditions of growth"

The following pages embody an endeavor to detect and state the ideas implied in a democratic society and to... Read Full Overview

The American philosopher John Dewey transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. In Democracy and Education (1916), Dewey opposed the model of education in which adults lecture at students and students follow strict rules. Instead, Dewey called... Read Full Overview

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. The... Read Full Overview

In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members... Read Full Overview