Democracy and Education

by John Dewey, Nicholas Tampio (Editor)

Overview

John Dewey’s Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This edition makes Dewey’s ideas come alive for a new generation of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231558273
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	02/27/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Dewey (1859–1952) was one of the great American pragmatist philosophers. He helped run the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago, and as a professor at Columbia University he taught students who brought his ideas about democratic education to places such as India, China, and Mexico.

Nicholas Tampio is a professor of political science at Fordham University. He is the author of Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach (2022) and Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy (2018).

Table of Contents

Chapter Map
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Dewey’s Vision in Democracy and Education
Preface
1. Education as a Necessity of Life
2. Education as a Social Function
3. Education as Direction
4. Education as Growth
5. Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
6. Education as Conservative and Progressive
7. The Democratic Conception in Education
8. Aims in Education
9. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
10. Interest and Discipline
11. Experience and Thinking
12. Thinking in Education
13. The Nature of Method
14. The Nature of Subject Matter
15. Play and Work in the Curriculum
16. The Significance of Geography and History
17. Science in the Course of Study
18. Educational Values
19. Labor and Leisure
20. Intellectual and Practical Studies
21. Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism
22. The Individual and the World
23. Vocational Aspects of Education
24. Philosophy of Education
25. Theories of Knowledge
26. Theories of Morals
Index

Editorial Reviews

After more than a hundred years, Democracy and Education is sprightly with Nicholas Tampio’s help,filled with insight that can and should guide future teachers, school leaders, education committees, and officers, as well as parents and guardians. This edition will be of great use to students and scholars of education, politics, and philosophy because of Tampio’s outstanding introduction of the work and its central themes and his insightful short statements at the start of each chapter.

Eric Thomas Weber

A new edition of Democracy and Education is timely, especially as renewed interest in Dewey’s work is growing around the world. Nicholas Tampio’s edition will help students and scholars alike navigate Dewey’s writing style and uncover complex ideas that continue to have applied significance in school and society today.

Sarah Stitzlein

At the heart of John Dewey’s 1916 Democracy and Education is a concern with how to educate us for democratic citizenship—how to make us appropriately responsive to the world around us. Nicholas Tampio is the ideal philosopher to edit this new edition of Dewey’s magisterial text and help us understand its powerful and underappreciated legacy. This is a volume that will generate a great deal of energy, and it will do so at a time when the health of our own education for democracy in the United States and elsewhere is in doubt.

Melvin L. Rogers

Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to bring to light what it means to educate and how public education serves as the foundation of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political issues as well. Psychology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are all subjects that John Dewey focused his talents on. Democracy and Education was originally published in 1916, but despite the passage of time, John Dewey remains one of the greatest educational philosophers. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies in education and for the necessity of universal education for the advancement of self and society. Dewey promotes a philosophy of education that focuses on freedom of the mind through guided and directed social activity. Many of Dewey's catch phrases, such as "learning by doing," are now often repeated in educational circles. See for yourself why "Democracy and Education" still stands the test of time.

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