Democracy And Education

Democracy and education is a classic book. John Dewey had revolutionary ideas in regard to education and the way that our country teaches its youth. He knew, years ago, that standardized testing was problematic, both for students and teachers! He really was ahead of his time, this particular edition of the book is really nice as well.

John Dewey is without a doubt America's most profound philosopher to date. I have many of his books and I incorporate his theories on philosophy of education and art into my own daily practices of progressive pragmatic philosophy of education and art.

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Not for the impatient. Dewey as a writer might sometimes make us feel like kindergartners being lectured on mostly what we already know, but that's our fault, not necessarily his. His patience in building complex concepts from the actual basics is unparallelled, but he depends on the reader to retain in mind the outlines, to sort the key ideas from the supporting arguments, and to sketch the diagrams: for better or worse, there are no math-like formulae here. But his sense of those real basics--the respect he pays to everyday experience itself, that Cinderella stepchild of modern philosophy, is worth the effort it takes to follow him out. On the other hand, the book does get more relevant to our understanding of both education and democracy as Dewey proceeds, so again, patience is rewarded. Beginning students of Dewey might do better to read Education and Experience first.

So far this book is extremely thought provoking and written in the style of the 1900's, which I love.

Part of the philosophical underpinning of western pedagogy. More a work of applied philosophy than anything practical or scientific, this is part of the foundation for thinking about and approaching education. Somewhat out of date - the ideas of controlling and shaping the growth of the child have changed to nurturing and guiding. Of course, the results produced by controlling far surpassed those produced currently. However, institutional education is a bastion of ideological demagoguery that will allow no outsider to question it or expect results. This is very dry and a dense, tedious read. I was a teacher, am interested in the topic and have read plenty of philosophy as dry as this. I still had trouble getting through it. Definitely only worth reading if you are very interested in the topic. The formatting is not great on this kindle version - the section headings in the chapters aren’t underlined and bolded as they should be and instead blend into blocks of texts. Makes reading this version more difficult. I got it for free - if the price isn’t significantly lower, you should purchase a different version instead of this.

Excellent resource for a graduate course I teach titled: Politics in Education.

Great read and the hardcover will ensure many years of legible reading if you are interested in boring theorizing.

It is hard to put down this book as it deals with two central twin concerns of modernity, namely education and democracy. Where education is emphasised as the core of society democracy most certainly emerges as the best system to safeguard our human rights.

Simply mind blowing .... Now i know how Ambedkar was like Ambedkar ... This man Dewey was his mentor during his doctrate in Columbia University.

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Good quality book.

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