The Public and Its Problems - format ePub

A classic in social and political philosophy. In his characteristic and provocative dialectic style, John Dewey clarifies the meaning and implications of such concepts as “the public,” “the state,” “government,”...

"Part 2 describes Dewey's concept of IMPULSES. They encompass the interaction of one's self with the environment. When the environment encounters problems with one's HABITS, Impulses are the motivating,...

A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents...

"A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also...

"John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science (with rules and predictive power) as Biology and Chemistry....

John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist. This project encompasses Part 4 of 4 of his book Human Nature and Conduct, An Introduction to Social Psychology,...

The three lectures presented in the following pages were delivered before an audience of parents and others interested in the University Elementary School, in the month of April of the year 1899. Mr....

It is one of the complaints of the schoolmaster that the public does not defer to his professional opinion as completely as it does to that of practitioners in other professions. At first sight it might...

Our schools are troubled with a multiplication of studies, each in turn having its own multiplication of materials and principles. Our teachers find their tasks made heavier in that they have come to...

Dewey attempts to criticize and expand on the educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. Dewey's ideas were seldom adopted in America's public schools, although a number of his prescriptions have...

Dewey sought to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic (or proto-democratic) educational philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's philosophy as overemphasizing...

Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more...

Le lezioni tenute da John Dewey a Pechino nel 1919-1920, presentate qui per la prima volta in forma completa al pubblico italiano, costituiscono un documento prezioso per gettare luce su uno degli aspetti...

John Dewey (1859-1952) is an American philosopher and psychologist most notably remembered for his theories on progressive education. He grew up in the rapidly industrializing town of Burlington, Vermont,...

John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education,...

Darwin est le nom d'une révolution. Mais pour le philosophe américain John Dewey, né l'année de la publication de L'Origine des espèces, en 1859, et mort près d'un siècle plus tard en 1952, il ne s'agit...

Ce volume propose les deux grands textes de John Dewey sur l’éducation : son traité de pédagogie, Démocratie et Éducation (1916) et Expérience et Éducation (1938) où l’auteur précise sa pensée et répond...

Ces dernières années, nos sociétés ont été le théâtre d’un regain en vigueur (et en intolérance) des religions monothéistes, lequel s’est accompagné d’une mise en question de l’évidence de la sécularisation...

John Dewey se confronte dans cet ouvrage de la maturité (1922) à ce qu’il considérait comme le problème philosophique majeur : les voies par lesquelles la conduite humaine est susceptible d’un progrès...

Sans doute la synthèse parfaite de la pensée de Dewey qui, ici, se libère du pragmatisme. " Qu'entend-on par expérience ? " - à la lumière d'une praxis repensée, il répond à la question, limite les prérogatives...

Dans Reconstruction en philosophie, initialement paru en 1920 mais rédigé aux lendemains de la 'crise de civilisation' que fut la Première Guerre mondiale, John Dewey, un des piliers du 'pragmatisme',...

Darwin est le nom d'une révolution. Mais pour le philosophe américain John Dewey, né l'année de la publication de L'Origine des espèces, en 1859, et mort près d'un siècle plus tard en 1952, il ne s'agit...

John Dewey se confronte dans cet ouvrage de la maturité (1922) à ce qu’il considérait comme le problème philosophique majeur : les voies par lesquelles la conduite humaine est susceptible d’un progrès...

John Dewey est l’un des philosophes majeurs du XXe siècle, et certainement l’un de ceux dont la pensée se conjugue le plus étroitement aux courants et aux transformations qui en ont marqué l’émergence...

John Dewey (1859-1952) est un des piliers du pragmatisme. Au centre de cette tradition, il y a l’enquête, c’est-à-dire la conviction qu’aucune question n’est a priori étrangère à la discussion et à la...

Lorsqu’en 1929 John Dewey (1859-1952) publie La Quête de certitude, il se tient à un moment déterminant de sa trajectoire : il a, depuis le début des années 1920, fait successivement paraître Reconstruction...

En août 1936, le monde stupéfait découvre les premiers procès de Moscou. Accusés des pires crimes, certains des principaux dirigeants de la révolution d’Octobre seront exécutés. Pourtant, le principal...

Que pourrait être une éthique démocratique ? Telle est l’interrogation qui donne son relief à la réflexion développée dans cette Éthique de John Dewey et James Hayden Tufts. L’édition de 1932 traduite...

Le lezioni tenute da John Dewey a Pechino nel 1919-1920, presentate qui per la prima volta in forma completa al pubblico italiano, costituiscono un documento prezioso per gettare luce su uno degli aspetti...

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Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

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