Democracy and Education
an introduction to the philosophy of education
by John Dewey · first published 1916
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Publisher description: John Dewey (1859-1952) believed that learning was active and schooling unnecessarily long and restrictive. His idea was that children came to school to do things and live in a community which gave them real, guided experiences which fostered their capacity to contribute to society. For example, Dewey believed that students should be involved in real-life tasks and challenges: maths could be learnt via learning proportions in cooking or figuring out how long it would take to get from one place to another by mule history could be learnt by experiencing how people lived, ge
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…organization that is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits." 2) The article mentions John Dewey, but doesn't really get into who he is. I strongly recommend reading his book, "Democracy and Education". As a taste: "A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension in space of the number of individuals who…
on “Make School a Democracy” ↗…isn't it? [1] Everything about this paragraph is pretty drastically oversimplified. For a fuller exposition of these ideas as they were expressed in the relevant historical period, check out John Dewey's Democracy and Education, published in 1916. [2] I don't mean to imply that University administrators are moustache-twiddling evil capitalists out to suck the education system dry. It's just that, faced with the task of administering…
on “Changing Education – How bootcamps outperform a university education” ↗For anyone who enjoyed this, a lot of these ideas were really well discussed a few years back in Neil Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" (1969) and John Dewey's "Democracy & Education" (1916). As you can see these books are over 50 years old. These ideas aren't new, which goes to say how long we've known this and what little have we done. The real question Graham poses here is: what is
on “The Lesson to Unlearn” ↗…democracy as the least tyrannical, most tolerant state of government: it must be something positively defined to be recognized as an ambition. For that, I turn to a book published in 1916, John Dewey's Democracy and Education. "A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension in space of the number of individuals who participate…
on “Why a more transparent NSA would be good for Barack Obama” ↗…something. So let's move to that. Another point: It may be that the US should take vocational education as seriously as, say, Germany does. We should consider that. Another point: In the classic Democracy and Education, John Dewey made a big point: He defined education as the passing from one generation to the next and mentioned that what gets passed is mostly just what was there, both good and bad, with maybe a little…
on “Why Our Schools Suck, The Movie” ↗…binomial theorem, and maybe his mother didn't teach him that at home, but, really, still, his education, the real key to his education, was at home. My dad told me about a basic book on education, Dewey, Democracy and Education. So, since I was spending so much time in school, I wanted to know why and read the book. At one point Dewey defined education -- passing down from one generation to the next, where he was quite clear…
on “High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her ‘ineffective’” ↗…MUCH better supervised than in US public schools. Maybe among the adults there was a Big Man on the Beach but not among the kids. Is this education? Well, yes!! There is the old, famous John Dewey Democracy and Education where with a definition that education is the passing down from the older generation to the younger one. What gets passed down is all of it, good and bad, true or false, written or not, scientific or…
on “Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study” ↗Additional reading: "The Idea of a University" by Newman (http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/) To see the roots of many of the pernicious practices: "Democracy and Education" by Dewey (http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/Projects/digitexts/...)
on “The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher” ↗…opinions on this thread, and this fact supports an observation: The 'theory' or 'principals' of what 'education' should be are a MESS! One of the posts mentioned Dewey: Yes he wrote: John Dewey, 'Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education', The Free Press, New York, 1966. although this is clearly not nearly the 'first printing'! Since my father was in education and had some influence from…
on “Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Take a Look” ↗