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The School and Society/The Child and the Curriculum

by John Dewey · 1956

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This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the practical applications of Dewey's ideas. In addition to a substantial introduction in which Philip W. Jackson explains why more of Dewey's ideas haven't been put into practice, this edition restores a "lost" chapter, dropped from the book by Dewey in 1915.

Subject
educationphilosophypsychologyhistory
Themes
teachers
Setting
college
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 252 pages

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