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 upon schools to provide children with experiences such as gardening, sewing, building structures, conducting experiments in laboratories, and performing in school plays. For Dewey, democratic education teaches young people to become creative individuals who contribute to society.This edition makes Democracy and Education come alive for a new generation of readers. The editor’s introduction explores the main themes of the book and how Dewey’s ideas contribute to debates about education standards, testing, accountability, school choice, free school lunch, recess, student discipline, and education technology. Each chapter begins with a brief overview clarifying the argument and its present-day relevance and ends with questions to prompt conversations and research papers. Drawing on more than a century of secondary literature on Dewey’s philosophy, this new edition will become the standard for scholars, teachers, and students.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-27
Mått156 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt712 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231210102

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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).

Chapter MapAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dewey’s Vision in Democracy and EducationPreface1. Education as a Necessity of Life2. Education as a Social Function3. Education as Direction4. Education as Growth5. Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline6. Education as Conservative and Progressive7. The Democratic Conception in Education8. Aims in Education9. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims10. Interest and Discipline11. Experience and Thinking12. Thinking in Education13. The Nature of Method14. The Nature of Subject Matter15. Play and Work in the Curriculum16. The Significance of Geography and History17. Science in the Course of Study18. Educational Values19. Labor and Leisure20. Intellectual and Practical Studies21. Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism22. The Individual and the World23. Vocational Aspects of Education24. Philosophy of Education25. Theories of Knowledge26. Theories of MoralsIndex

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.