The School and Society: And the Child and the Curriculum
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.
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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 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 IllustrationsNew Introduction and a Note on the Publishing History of the Text and on This EditionThe School and SocietyIThe School and Social Progress6IIThe School and the Life of the Child30IIIWaste in Education63IVThe Psychology of Elementary Education95VFroebel's Educational Principles116VIThe Psychology of Occupations132VIIThe Development of Attention139VIIIThe Aim of History in Elementary Education150Postscript: Three Years of the University Elementary School161The Child and the Curriculum179
\ Booknews 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)\ \
