• Complain

Dworkin Martin S. - Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin

Here you can read online Dworkin Martin S. - Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: New York;N.Y, year: 1959, publisher: Teachers College Press, genre: Science. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Dworkin Martin S. Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin
  • Book:
    Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Teachers College Press
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    1959
  • City:
    New York;N.Y
  • Rating:
    4 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 80
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

Dworkin has gathered some of Deweys clearest and most characteristic statements on education and set them in the stream of American social and intellectual history. In addition, he has indicated some of the rich literature available to those who would probe more deeply into Deweys ideas and the context in which they matured.

Dworkin Martin S.: author's other books


Who wrote Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

DEWEY ON EDUCATION CLASSICS IN EDUCATION Lawrence A Cremin General - photo 1

DEWEY ON EDUCATION
CLASSICS IN EDUCATION

Lawrence A. Cremin, General Editor

DEWEY ON EDUCATION

Selections

Introduction and Notes by Martin S. Dworkin

THE EMILE OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Selections

Translated and Edited by William Boyd

THE REPUBLIC AND THE SCHOOL

Horace Mann on the Education of Free Men

Edited by Lawrence A. Cremin

AMERICAN EDUCATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

A Documentary History

Edited by Marvin Lazerson

THE SUPREME COURT AND EDUCATION

(Third Edition)

Edited by David Fellman

JANE ADDAMS ON EDUCATION

Edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

THE EDUCATED WOMAN IN AMERICA

Selected Writings of Catharine Beecher, Margaret Fuller, and M. Carey Thomas

Edited by Barbara M. Cross

THE THEORY OF EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO

By Richard Lewis Nettleship

Foreword by Robert McClintock

NOAH WEBSTERS AMERICAN SPELLING BOOK

Introduction by Henry Steele Commager

UTOPIANISM AND EDUCATION

Robert Owen and the Owenites

Edited by John F. C. Harrison

EMERSON ON EDUCATION

Selections

Edited by Howard Mumford Jones

AMERICAN EDUCATION AND VOCATIONALISM

A Documentary History, 18701970

Edited by Marvin Lazerson and W. Norton Grubb

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS CONCERNING THE AIM AND METHOD OF EDUCATION

By William Harrison Woodward

Foreword by Craig R. Thompson

JOHN LOCKES OF THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING

Edited by Francis W. Garforth

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ON EDUCATION

Edited by John Hardin Best

QUINTILIAN ON EDUCATION

Selected and Translated by William M. Small

JOSEPH LANCASTER AND THE MONITORIAL SCHOOL MOVEMENT

A Documentary History

Edited by Carl F. Kaestle

THE EDUCATIONAL THEORIES OF THE SOPHISTS

Edited by James L. Jarrett

DEWEY ON EDUCATION
Selections with
an Introduction and Notes
by Martin S. Dworkin

CLASSICS IN

No. 3

EDUCATION

1959 by Martin S Dworkin Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 59-15893 ISBN - photo 2

1959 by Martin S. Dworkin

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number

59-15893

ISBN 978-0-8077-1263-4 (paper)

ISBN 978-0-8077-7635-3 (ebook)

Foreword

I T SEEMS the fate of every influential thinker to be much discussed but little read in the years immediately after his death. John Dewey is no exception. His writings have been translated into a dozen different languages; many are still in print; almost all are widely available. Yet contemporary educational discussion is filled with the shoddiest misconceptions of what he said; and disciples and critics alike have purveyed the grossest caricatures of his work. This volume, third in the Classics in Education series, ought to do much to clear the air. Mr. Dworkin has gathered together some of Deweys clearest and most characteristic statements on education, and set them in the stream of American social and intellectual history. In addition, he has indicated some of the rich literature available to those who would probe more deeply into Deweys ideas and the context in which they matured. Most important, perhaps, he has asked his readers neither to worship nor to damn Dewey, but rather to ponder himwhich is, after all, what Dewey himself would most have appreciated.

L AWRENCE A. C REMIN

Contents

by Martin S. Dworkin

John Dewey: A Centennial Review
B Y M ARTIN S. D WORKIN

One hundred years after his birth, John Dewey is a figure of partisan fiction. Extreme disavowals of his importance are countered by passionate assertions of his greatness. Careful reappraisal of his work is itself ridiculed or ignored, either as part of a continuing conspiracy or as unnecessary annotation of explicit scriptures. The images of Dewey created in this kind of clamor may say a great deal about American attitudes at mid-centuryas well as about traditional tendencies to view controversies as epic melodramas of heroes versus villains. But because Dewey played so consequential a part in American life, and had so profound an influence throughout the world, the fictitious figures of denied importance or affirmed greatness only block our view of the stage on which he moved and the drama in which he was a principal. Not only are we hindered in the necessary business of dealing with the many unclarities and unresolved difficulties of his work. We are prevented from seeing clearly the background of events and movements of ideas that we must rehearse and reexamine in order to know ourselves and the world in which we live.

Deweys career was the longest among those philosophers for whom there are substantial and verifiable records. The range and quantity of his writings attest not merely his spirited activity until the very end of his life, but the astonishing vigor of the mind that was at work. His first publication, which appeared when he was But of all his published work, it is his writings on education that have exerted the widest and deepest influences upon life in the United States and other countries. And it is in the area of education that the question of his stature is presently most embattled and directly involved with issues which are among the most vital and urgent facing us today.

Irwin Edman remarked that it was a historical accident that Dewey became widely known as an educator long before he became equally widely influential as a professional philosopher. That accident conformed to Deweys essential intent. dent that is intentional. The paradox, at the least, that is suggested introduces the consideration of the place of Deweys writings on education in the whole of his work. And this consideration leads further to the fundamental problem of the actual nature of his influence upon American education. To what extent, we must ask, was Deweys impact unique, novel, truly innovative? And to what extent was it a product or expression of larger, ultimately determinant forces in American life? In dealing with these questions, more is involved than the inescapable task of understanding Deweys work in order to criticize it. For Deweys responsibility for the form and substance of American education has been one of the most persistent expletives of the bitter brawling over the schools, especially in the last decade. Was Deweys influence accidental? Or was it inevitable? In either case, was it crucial?

We know far more about the background and development of Deweys philosophy than we do about the context within which his educational ideas took on their power. One reason for this is surely the tendency in the genteel tradition of American scholarship to regard the study of education as worth no more than discreet afterthought. This attitude was attacked by Dewey himself as revealing a sadly inadequate understanding of what knowledge is, and an even sadder ignorance of how knowledge is to be made to benefit our lives. In fact, Deweys gradual rejection of traditional philosophy took place during the period when he began to actively concern himself with problems of teaching and learning. It is a naive simplification to say, with many admirers and detractors of Dewey, that he broke with the tradition primarily or principally because of his emerging educational theories. What does appear reasonable, however, in the light of the influences bearing upon his early intellectual development, is that both his reaction against his own earlier philosophical training and his commitment to education were related in their origin.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin»

Look at similar books to Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin»

Discussion, reviews of the book Dewey on education: selections with an introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.