Experience and education / by John Dewey.
Record details
- ISBN: 0684838281 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780684838281 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 91 p. ; 18 cm.
- Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997, c1938.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Touchstone book." |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Traditional vs. progressive education -- 2. The need of a theory of experience -- 3. Criteria of experience -- 4. Social control -- 5. The nature of freedom -- 6. The meaning of purpose -- 7. Progressive organization of subject-matter -- 8. Experience : the means and goal of education. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | LB 875 .D494 1997 | 30775305476351 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Experience and Education
John Dewey was born in 1859 in Burlington, Vermont. He founded the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago in 1896 to apply his original theories of learning based on pragmatism and "directed living." This combination of learning with concrete activities and practical experience helped earn him the title, "father of progressive education." After leaving Chicago he went to Columbia University as a professor of philosophy from 1904 to 1930, bringing his educational philosophy to the Teachers College there. Dewey was known and consulted internationally for his opinions on a wide variety of social, educational and political issues. His many books on these topics began with Psychology (1887), and include The School and Society (1899), Experience and Nature (1925), and Freedom and Culture (1939).Dewey died of pneumonia in 1952. (Bowker Author Biography)