Designed specifically for teachers and education students, with carefully selected articles, lectures, and book chapters covering Dewey's major ideas.
This John Dewey reader was designed specifically for teachers, teacher educators, and education students. Using carefully selected articles, lectures, book chapters, and other brief writings from Dewey's collected works, it covers major concepts and ideas from his extensive research and reflections on education and teaching. The twenty-five readings were carefully chosen for their accessibility and their continuing relevance to the work of classroom teachers and other school-based practitioners. To enhance its usefulness, the book contains a glossary of Deweyan terms, summaries for each reading, a selective annotated bibliography, and an index. Instead of merely encountering Dewey's views secondhand, this volume empowers readers to access and explore primary sources in a user-friendly way.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Previous Publication Details
Glossary of Deweyan Terms
Introduction: John Dewey: The Education of a Lifelong Learner
I. The Nature of Learning
1. What Psychology Can Do for the Teacher (1895)
2. Education, Direct and Indirect (1904)
3. From How We Think (1933)
What Is Thinking?
Analysis of Reflective Thinking
II. The Nature of Method
4. Method in Science Teaching (1916)
5. The Classroom Teacher (1923)
6. From Experience and Education (1938)
The Need of a Theory of Experience
Criteria of Experience
III. The Nature of Subject-Matter-and Curriculum
7. The Child and the Curriculum (1902)
8. From Democracy and Education (1916)
The Nature of Subject Matter
9. From The Way Out of Educational Confusion (1931)
IV. Theory and Practice in Education
10. The Relation of Theory to Practice in Education (1904)
11. From The Sources of a Science of Education, Part 1 (1929)
Part I: Education as a Science
Education as an Art
12. The Need for a Philosophy of Education (1934)
V. The Individual and Society in Democratic Education
13. Individuality in Education (1922)
14. Education and Social Change (1937)
15 Democracy and Education in the World of Today (1938)
VI. Morals, Ethics, and the Education of Habit
16. From Moral Principles in Education (1909)
The Moral Training Given by the School Community
The Moral Training from Methods of Instruction
The Social Nature of the Course of Study
17. From Human Nature and Conduct (1922)
Introduction
Part One: The Place of Habit in Conduct
Part Two: The Place of Impulse in Conduct
Part Three: The Place of Intelligence in Conduct
VII. The Arts and Aesthetic Education
18. Individuality and Experience (1926)
19. Experience, Nature, and Art (1925)
20. From Art as Experience (1934)
Art and Civilization
VIII. Vocational Education and Policy
21. Some Dangers in the Present Movement for Industrial Education (1913)
22. Learning to Earn: The Place of Vocational Education in a Comprehensive Scheme of Public Education (1917)
IX. The Profession of Teaching
23. My Pedagogic Creed (1897)
Article One. What Education Is
Article Two. What the School Is
Article Three. The Subject-Matter of Education
Article Four. The Nature of Method
Article Five. The School and Social Progress
24. Toward a National System of Education (1935)
25. Those Who Aspire to the Profession of Teaching (1938)
Reader Bibliography
Selective Annotated Bibliography
Index
About the Author :
David A. Granger is Professor of Education at SUNY Geneseo. He is the author of John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life and John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living. From 2010 to 2020, Granger was the Editor of Education and Culture, a journal of the John Dewey Society.
Review :
"Today's educators who peruse these readings will find a morale boost as well as become aware that the obstacles they face are nothing new in American schools. Decades ago, Dewey could foresee the problems schools were bringing on themselves by following whims instead of science." — School Administrator
"This is an excellent collection of selected works by Dewey that would be great for both undergraduate and graduate students. As a Dewey scholar, I'm familiar with almost all of the works included, but there are lovely surprises too. Dewey scholars would very much enjoy this collection." — Deron Boyles, Georgia State University, co-author of The Politics of Inquiry: Education Research and the "Culture of Science"
"The selections are excellent. They cover the full range of the development of Dewey's philosophy of education over time, from his early idealism to his later pragmatism. The author's introductory materials are extensive, accurate, and well crafted. They offer the reader an excellent overview of the materials. Together with the extensive glossary they provide a basic guide to the material for those who may be unfamiliar with the readings." — Larry A. Hickman, Emeritus and Former Director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
"In John Dewey: A Reader for Teachers and Education Students, David Granger has masterfully curated a set of short texts that convey—with both breadth and depth—Dewey's impact on all things teaching and learning—from purposes to practices to principles for living, learning, and earning. I recommend this collection as a required text for all candidates in teacher education programs, offering students a Deweyan perspective at each moment in their development as teachers." — Barbara Stengel, Professor Emerita, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
