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Experience and Education

by John Dewey

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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.

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"No one has done more to keep alive the fundamental ideals of liberal civilization."-- Morris R. Cohen

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DOCTOR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN, September 26, 2007 (view all comments by DOCTOR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN)
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This excellent book shows that first and foremost Dewey was a philosopher at heart.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780684838281
Author:
Dewey, John
Publisher:
Free Press
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Education
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
United States - General
Subject:
Non-Formal Education
Subject:
Experiential learning
Subject:
Experience
Subject:
General education.
Subject:
General Education
Subject:
Education -- Philosophy.
Copyright:
Edition Description:
B102
Series Volume:
v. 1
Publication Date:
July 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
96
Dimensions:
7.16x4.44x.28 in. .12 lbs.

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