Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey; the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy); this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education; Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education; even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy; here expressed in its most essential; most readable form; predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience; on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social; both orderly and dynamic.
#190151 in Books Cornelius Ryan 1995-05-01 1995-05-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 1.60 x 6.12l; 1.60 #File Name: 0684803305670 pagesA Bridge Too Far The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II
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