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The School and Society & The Child and the Curriculum
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.1
EAN: 9780486419541
ISBN: 0486419541
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: July 18, 2001
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications
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Editorial Review:
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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Rating:  - Another Dewey classic - wait, two classics in one!
This great book contains two Dewey classics: (1) The School and Society; and, (2) The Child and the Curriculum. This text is like most Dewey works: concise and to the point. This text focuses on the effects and the power that teachers should have in affecting student lives. There is much discussion on Dewey's classic "educative" experiences and how education should be hands-on learning. Dewey also asserts that curriculum should emulate real life challenges and "occupations" of everyday life. Learning ... Read More
Rating:  - Ivory tower crackpot theories.
No intellectual can afford to be unacquainted with the immortal John Dewey and his "experimental school." Who would dare impute the legendary researcher permanently linked with the doctrine of the irreproachable "progressivism?" Somebody has to. It has to be I.
Dewey's conception of the child as learner assumes that the green mind most effectively comes to knowledge by directing its own education through spontaneous curiosity stemming from nature study. This he then expects will blossom into ... Read More
Rating: - What to teach
Dewey, a profound contributor to the field of education, displays some of his beliefs of the best methods to teach children in The Child and the Curriculum. To begin Dewey's discussion, the child's world is examined. In this examining, a sense of how the child's world operates is formed. Children learn through the process of experiencing things, life. In this book Dewey, finds that the schools in which children are educated contradict their very learning style by nature. "The child's life is an integral, ... Read More
Rating: - Why going to school ?
From a high school student's point of view, reading Dewey couldn't provide something else than hope for educational systems, most of which, despite the efforts of making a school a more living atmosphere, organizations still remain too mechanical in learning procedures and detached from social applications regarding the capabilities they serve.
Originally from Cameroon, I've had the opportunity to explore three educational systems from different cultural influence each. It was an advantage that surely ... Read More
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