Democracy and Education |
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| Author:
| Dewey, John |
| Introduction by:
| Gutek, Gerald L. |
| Series title: | Barnes and Noble Digital Library |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4114-6773-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $3.99 |
Book Description:
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Since its publication in 1916, John Dewey's
Democracy and Education has been a classic in the philosophy of education.
Democracy and Education's enduring strength lies in Dewey's extraordinary ability to instill the dynamics of a changing nation and world into his Experimentalist philosophy. Not only did the book examine education in a...
More Description This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Since its publication in 1916, John Dewey's Democracy and Education has been a classic in the philosophy of education. Democracy and Education's enduring strength lies in Dewey's extraordinary ability to instill the dynamics of a changing nation and world into his Experimentalist philosophy. Not only did the book examine education in a changing world, but it analyzed the relationships between society and education.
As America shifted from an agricultural nation to a technological society, Dewey seized on this transformation as a challenging opportunity to bridge and integrate the larger world context with the smaller setting of changing communities, neighborhoods, and schools. Democracy, for Dewey, as a pragmatic way of life was free of the often-proclaimed eternal verities and absolutes that impeded open-ended experimental inquiry. No subject, custom, or value was so sacrosanct that it could not be reconstructed, if necessary.