Education Between Two Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780202308135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 340 str.

Alexander Meiklejohn; Reginald D. Archambault; Lionel Lewis

Opis

Written in the midst of World War II, this book makes a strong argument for the crucial importance of education as the solution to the dilemmas with which our Anglo-Saxon culture was nurtured, with particular emphasis on the work of John Dewey and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Stringfellow Barr, writing for the New Republic, said that this is "A wise and courageous book. I do not know how anybody concerned with education can ignore it.

Spis treści

book I Protestantcapitalist Education; 1: From Church to State; 2: John Amos Comenius; 3: John Locke; 4: Matthew Arnold; 5: The Forces of Disintegration; The Problem of Reconstruction; 6: Jean Jacques Rousseau; 7: The First of the Moderns; 8: Custom and Intelligence-Two Authorities; 9: The Teacher has Two Masters; book III The Pragmatic Episode—A Study of John Dewey; 10: General Features of Pragmatism; 11: The War Cries of Pragmatism; 12: Knowledge and Intelligence; 13: The Theory of the State; 14: The Theory of Democracy; book IV The Social Contract as Basis of Education; 15: The Doctrine of Brotherhood; 16: The Cue From Rousseau; 17: Reasonableness is Reasonable; 18: The Quantity of Reasonableness; 19: The Quality of Reasonableness; 20: The State and the Individual; 21: The General Theory of Education

O autorze

Alexander Meiklejohn