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2011 Reprint of 1920 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book is a classic text in the history of American Education. Dewey's classic work, although tedious at times, is a cogent and landmark exposition of progressive educational theory. Democracy for Dewey was both a means and an end to the building of a good and just society. In this regard he sought to develop strategies and methods for training students through learning and discipline to become socially responsible adults. In this book Dewey sought at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic (or proto-democratic) educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's philosophy as overemphasizing the individual and Plato's philosophy as overemphasizing the society in which the individual lived. For Dewey, this distinction was largely a false one. He viewed the mind and its formation as a communal process. Thus the individual is only a meaningful concept when regarded as an inextricable part of his or her society, and the society has no meaning apart from its realization in the lives of its individual members.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Democracy and Education
• Subtitle: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
• Author: John Dewey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450
• EAN: 9781614271581
• ISBN: 9781614271581
• ID: 08800598
• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Weight: 668 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 156 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2011

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