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The School and Society: And the Child and the Curriculum »

Authors: John Dewey
ISBN-13: 9780486419541, ISBN-10: 0486419541
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: John Dewey

Book Synopsis

These two short, influential books represent the earliest authoritative statement of Dewey's revolutionary emphasis on education as an experimental, child-centered process. He declares that we must make schools an embryonic community life and stresses the importance of the curriculum as a means of determining the environment of the child. 4 halftones and 4 charts.

Booknews

<:st> America's arch-philosopher of education wrote these short pieces out of his experience with Chicago's laboratory school which he started in 1896. Dewey's first piece (1915) argues for making the school into a microsociety of the larger one, while in the second (1902) he seeks a curriculum acting as a kind of program for teachers to follow. Teachers can then guide children toward enough self-confidence to be assertive and exercise their capacities. Cited in Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	List of Illustrations
	New Introduction and a Note on the Publishing History of the Text and on This Edition
	The School and Society
I	The School and Social Progress	6
II	The School and the Life of the Child	30
III	Waste in Education	63
IV	The Psychology of Elementary Education	95
V	Froebel's Educational Principles	116
VI	The Psychology of Occupations	132
VII	The Development of Attention	139
VIII	The Aim of History in Elementary Education	150
	Postscript: Three Years of the University Elementary School	161
	The Child and the Curriculum	179