Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
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DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION
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Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life
Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being.
Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function
Summary. The development within the young of the attitudes and
Chapter Three: Education as Direction
1. The Environment as Directive.
Summary. The natural or native impulses of the young do not agree with
Chapter Four: Education as Growth
1. The Conditions of Growth.
Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity.
Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
Summary. The conception that the result of the educative process is
Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive
Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospectively or
Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education
Summary. Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds
Chapter Eight: Aims in Education
1. The Nature of an Aim.
Summary. An aim denotes the result of any natural process brought to
Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
Summary. General or comprehensive aims are points of view for surveying
1 Donaldson, Growth of Brain, p. 356.
Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline
Summary. Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity
Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking
Summary. In determining the place of thinking in experience we first
Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education
Summary. Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which
Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method
1. The Unity of Subject Matter and Method.
Summary. Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an
Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter
Summary. The subject matter of education consists primarily of the
Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum
Summary. In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject
Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History
Summary. It is the nature of an experience to have implications which
Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study
Summary. Science represents the fruition of the cognitive factors in
Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values
Summary. Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value
Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure
1. The Origin of the Opposition.
Summary. Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the
Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies
Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing
Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism
Summary. The philosophic dualism between man and nature is reflected in
Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World
Summary. True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip
Chapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of Education
Summary. A vocation signifies any form of continuous activity which
Chapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of Education
Summary. After a review designed to bring out the philosophic issues
Chapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledge
Summary. Such social divisions as interfere with free and full
Chapter Twenty-six: Theories of Morals
1. The Inner and the Outer.
Summary. The most important problem of moral education in the school
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