Democracy and Education

by John Dewey

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Education as a Necessity of Life:	page
Renewal of Life by Transmission	1
Education and Communication	4
The Place of Formal Education	7
Summary	11
CHAPTER II
Education as a Social Function:
The Nature and Meaning of Environment	12
The Social Environment	14
The Social Medium as Educative	19
The School as a Special Environment	22
Summary	26
CHAPTER III
Education as Direction:
The Environment as Directive	28
Modes of Social Direction	31
Imitation and Social Psychology	40
Some Applications to Education	43
Summary	47
CHAPTER IV
Education as Growth:
The Conditions of Growth	49
Habits as Expressions of Growth	54
The Educational Bearings of the Conception of Development	59
Summary	62
CHAPTER V
Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline:
Education as Preparation	63
Education as Unfolding	65
Education as Training of Faculties	70
Summary	79
CHAPTER VI
Education as Conservative and Progressive:
Education as Formation	81
Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection	84
Education as Reconstruction	89
Summary	92
CHAPTER VII
The Democratic Conception in Education:
The Implications of Human Association	94
The Democratic Ideal	100
The Platonic Educational Philosophy	102
The "Individualistic" Ideal of the Eighteenth Century	106
Education as National and as Social	108
Summary	115
CHAPTER VIII
Aims in Education:
The Nature of an Aim	117
The Criteria of Good Aims	121
Applications in Education	124
Summary	129
CHAPTER IX
Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims:
Nature as Supplying the Aim	130
Social Efficiency as Aim	138
Culture as Aim	142
Summary	144
CHAPTER X
Interest and Discipline:
The Meaning of the Terms	146
The Importance of the Idea of Interest in Education	152
Some Social Aspects of the Question	158
Summary	161
CHAPTER XI
Experience and Thinking:
The Nature of Experience	163
Reflection in Experience	169
Summary	177
CHAPTER XII
Thinking in Education:
The Essentials of Method	179
Summary	192
CHAPTER XIII
The Nature of Method:
The Unity of Subject Matter and Method	193
Method as General and as Individual	200
The Traits of Individual Method	203
Summary	211
CHAPTER XIV
The Nature of Subject Matter:
Subject Matter of Educator and of Learner	212
The Development of Subject Matter in the Learner	216
Science or Rationalized Knowledge	221
Subject Matter as Social	224
Summary	226
CHAPTER XV
Play and Work in the Curriculum:
The Place of Active Occupations in Education	228
Available Occupations	230
Work and Play	237
Summary	241
CHAPTER XVI
The Significance of Geography and History:
Extension of Meaning of Primary Activities	243
The Complementary Nature of History and Geography	246
History and Present Social Life	250
Summary	255
CHAPTER XVII
Science in the Course of Study:
The Logical and the Psychological	256
Science and Social Progress	261
Naturalism and Humanism in Education	267
Summary	269
CHAPTER XVIII
Educational Values:
The Nature of Realization or Appreciation	271
The Valuation of Studies	279
The Segregation and Organization of Values	285
Summary	291
CHAPTER XIX
Labor and Leisure:
The Origin of the Opposition	293
The Present Situation	298
Summary	305
CHAPTER XX
Intellectual and Practical Studies:
The Opposition of Experience and True Knowledge	306
The Modern Theory of Experience and Knowledge	311
Experience as Experimentation	317
Summary	322
CHAPTER XXI
Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism:
The Historic Background of Humanistic Study	324
The Modern Scientific Interest in Nature	328
The Present Educational Problem	333
Summary	338
CHAPTER XXII
The Individual and the World:
Mind as Purely Individual	340
Individual Mind as the Agent of Reorganization	343
Educational Equivalents	351
Summary	356
CHAPTER XXIII
Vocational Aspects of Education:
The Meaning of Vocation	358
The Place of Vocational Aims in Education	360
Present Opportunities and Dangers	364
Summary	373
CHAPTER XXIV
Philosophy of Education:
A Critical Review	375
The Nature of Philosophy	378
Summary	387
CHAPTER XXV
Theories of Knowledge:
Continuity versus Dualism	388
Schools of Method	395
Summary	400
CHAPTER XXVI
Theories of Morals:
The Inner and Outer	402
The Opposition of Duty and Interest	407
Intelligence and Character	410
The Social and the Moral	414
Summary	418