
John Dewey - Ultimate Collection: 40+ Works on Psychology, Education, Philosophy & Politics
Pragmatism, Education, Democracy, and the Philosophy of ExperienceBy John DeweyLength166h 49m
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John Dewey – Ultimate Collection gathers more than forty works spanning psychology, education, philosophy, ethics, and politics, presenting an extensive portrait of one of American pragmatism's defining thinkers. Across essays, lectures, and major treatises, Dewey examines experience as the ground of knowledge, inquiry as an instrument for resolving practical problems, and education as the central means of democratic renewal. His prose combines philosophical rigor with an unusually accessible, experimental style: analytic when confronting traditional metaphysics, concrete when discussing classrooms, labor, social institutions, and public life. Read as a whole, the collection illuminates the continuity between Dewey's theory of mind and his progressive vision of culture, while placing his work within the intellectual transformations of modern American thought. Born in 1859, Dewey developed his philosophy amid the rise of psychology, industrial capitalism, democratic reform, and debates over the purposes of schooling. His teaching at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, together with his engagement in public controversies, led him to reject detached speculation in favor of philosophy as an active method of social criticism. These circumstances shaped his sustained concern with learning, communication, freedom, and collective intelligence. This collection is recommended to readers seeking both an authoritative introduction to Dewey and a substantial sourcebook for advanced study. It is especially valuable for students and scholars of pragmatism, educational theory, political philosophy, psychology, and democratic culture.
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GenrePhilosophy
Length166 hrs 49 mins
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Publish dateDec 21, 2023
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Table of contents
1The Complete Works of David Hume
2John Dewey - Ultimate Collection: 40+ Works on Psychology, Education, Philosophy & Politics
3On Education
4Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life
5Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being
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6Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function
7Summary. The development within the young of the attitudes and
8Chapter Three: Education as Direction
9Summary. The natural or native impulses of the young do not agree with
10Chapter Four: Education as Growth
11Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity
12Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
13Summary. The conception that the result of the educative process is
14Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive
15Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospectively or
16Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education
17Summary. Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds
18Chapter Eight: Aims in Education
19Summary. An aim denotes the result of any natural process brought to
20Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
21Summary. General or comprehensive aims are points of view for surveying
22Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline
23Summary. Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity
24Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking
25Summary. In determining the place of thinking in experience we first
26Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education
27Summary. Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which
28Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method
29Summary. Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an
30Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter
31Summary. The subject matter of education consists primarily of the
32Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum
33Summary. In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject
34Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History
35Summary. It is the nature of an experience to have implications which
36Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study
37Summary. Science represents the fruition of the cognitive factors in
38Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values
39Summary. Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value
40Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure
41Summary. Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the
42Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies
43Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing
44Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism
45Summary. The philosophic dualism between man and nature is reflected in
46Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World
47Summary. True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip
48Chapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of Education
49Summary. A vocation signifies any form of continuous activity which
50Chapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of Education