A Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" (9780226408231): D. C. Phillips


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BUY FROM PUBLISHER Available as an ebook at: Amazon Kindle Apple iBooks Barnes & Noble Nook eBooks Corp. EBSCO eBooks Google Play Kobo	A Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" by D. C. Phillips University of Chicago Press, 2016 Cloth: 978-0-226-40823-1 \| eISBN: 978-0-226-40840-8 \| Paper: 978-0-226-40837-8 Library of Congress Classification LB875.D5P52 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 370.1 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| REVIEWS \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK This year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey’s magnum opus, Democracy and Education. Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and—dare we say it—a little dry. In this charming and often funny companion, noted philosopher of education D. C. Phillips goes chapter by chapter to bring Dewey to a twenty-first-century audience. Drawing on over fifty years of thinking about this book—and on his own experiences as an educator—he lends it renewed clarity and a personal touch that proves its lasting importance. Phillips bridges several critical pitfalls of Democracy and Education that often prevent contemporary readers from fully understanding it. Where Dewey sorely needs a detailed example to illustrate a point—and the times are many—Phillips steps in, presenting cases from his own classroom experiences. Where Dewey casually refers to the works of people like Hegel, Herbart, and Locke—common knowledge, apparently, in 1916—Phillips fills in the necessary background. And where Dewey gets convoluted or is even flat-out wrong, Phillips does what few other scholars would do: he takes Dewey to task. The result is a lively accompaniment that helps us celebrate and be enriched by some of the most important ideas ever offered in education. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY D. C. Phillips is professor emeritus of education and philosophy at Stanford University, where he has also served as associate dean and of the Graduate School of Education. He is the author or editor of many books including, most recently, the Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy. REVIEWS “By turns deftly supportive, harshly critical, and laugh-out-loud funny, Phillips’s companion to Dewey’s classic text is deeply insightful and instructive. Phillips is the best kind of critic, one who is broadly and sympathetically appreciative of Dewey’s insights but quick to point out unclarities, non sequiturs, and mistakes both large and small. Written in an elegant but conversational style and infused with charming and revealing accounts of his personal experiences as a student, high school science teacher, and professor and Dewey scholar, Phillips has written a book that will guide both newcomers to and veteran readers of Democracy and Education. The companion is also much more fun to read than Dewey’s foundational but too often turgid tome!” — Harvey Siegel, University of Miami “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote of one of John Dewey’s books: ‘But although Dewey’s book is incredibly ill written, it seemed to me after several re-readings to have a feeling of intimacy with the inside of the cosmos that I found unequalled. So methought God would have spoken had He been inarticulate but keenly desirous to tell you how it was.’ Methinks that Phillips has managed to make the inarticulate articulate and to tell us ‘how it was’ according to Dewey. A fine companion on the anniversary of the publication of a most important book.”— — Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Phillips has addressed the issues in Dewey’s magnum opus with clarity, humor, and insight—such as I have not witnessed in any other publication. Phillips has relied on Dewey throughout his professional life, and this experience allows him to give, chapter by chapter, crystal clear commentaries that get right to the heart of Dewey’s key messages.” — Richard Pring, University of Oxford "A Companion to John Dewey’s Democracy and Education was published in 2016, over one hundred years after the publication of Dewey’s Democracy and Education, a highly regarded text in the field of educational foundations. The companion book to this text was not written to replace or summarize Dewey’s text, but rather to serve as a companion in supporting present day readers. The author, D.C. Phillips, through his own experiences as an educator and philosopher of education, provides discussions on the content of each chapter of Dewey’s text. He gives examples from his own teaching experience as part of these discussions for the purpose of better understanding the discourse of Dewey’s Democracy and Education, which was primarily tied to the context and common knowledge of that era. These examples help to translate and clarify how Dewey’s principles of equity and justice can apply to schools and society today. Highly recommended." — Choice TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: John Dewey and Me The Companion Preface, 1915 1 Education as a Necessity of Life 2 Education as a Social Function 3 Education as Direction 4 Education as Growth 5 Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline 6 Education as Conservative and Progressive 7 The Democratic Conception in Education 8 Aims in Education 9 Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims 10 Interest and Discipline 11 Experience and Thinking 12 Thinking in Education 13 The Nature of Method 14 The Nature of Subject Matter 15 Play and Work in the Curriculum 16 The Significance of Geography and History 17 Science in the Course of Study 18 Educational Values 19 Labor and Leisure 20 Intellectual and Practical Studies 21 Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism 22 The Individual and the World 23 Vocational Aspects of Education 24 Philosophy of Education 25 Theories of Knowledge 26 Theories of Morals Bibliographical Essay REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. 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REVIEWS

“By turns deftly supportive, harshly critical, and laugh-out-loud funny, Phillips’s companion to Dewey’s classic text is deeply insightful and instructive. Phillips is the best kind of critic, one who is broadly and sympathetically appreciative of Dewey’s insights but quick to point out unclarities, non sequiturs, and mistakes both large and small. Written in an elegant but conversational style and infused with charming and revealing accounts of his personal experiences as a student, high school science teacher, and professor and Dewey scholar, Phillips has written a book that will guide both newcomers to and veteran readers of Democracy and Education. The companion is also much more fun to read than Dewey’s foundational but too often turgid tome!”

— Harvey Siegel, University of Miami

“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote of one of John Dewey’s books: ‘But although Dewey’s book is incredibly ill written, it seemed to me after several re-readings to have a feeling of intimacy with the inside of the cosmos that I found unequalled. So methought God would have spoken had He been inarticulate but keenly desirous to tell you how it was.’ Methinks that Phillips has managed to make the inarticulate articulate and to tell us ‘how it was’ according to Dewey. A fine companion on the anniversary of the publication of a most important book.”—

— Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Phillips has addressed the issues in Dewey’s magnum opus with clarity, humor, and insight—such as I have not witnessed in any other publication. Phillips has relied on Dewey throughout his professional life, and this experience allows him to give, chapter by chapter, crystal clear commentaries that get right to the heart of Dewey’s key messages.”

— Richard Pring, University of Oxford

"A Companion to John Dewey’s Democracy and Education was published in 2016, over one hundred years after the publication of Dewey’s Democracy and Education, a highly regarded text in the field of educational foundations. The companion book to this text was not written to replace or summarize Dewey’s text, but rather to serve as a companion in supporting present day readers. The author, D.C. Phillips, through his own experiences as an educator and philosopher of education, provides discussions on the content of each chapter of Dewey’s text. He gives examples from his own teaching experience as part of these discussions for the purpose of better understanding the discourse of Dewey’s Democracy and Education, which was primarily tied to the context and common knowledge of that era. These examples help to translate and clarify how Dewey’s principles of equity and justice can apply to schools and society today. Highly recommended."

— Choice