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Democracy and Education
by John Dewey
from Echo Library

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• worthy content, bad presentation
  I had read Dewey's Democracy and Education before, and wanted to own a copy to refer to again and again. I was not pleased with this particular edition, however. The type is small, and the chapter breaks are not clearly indicated.

• Warning deep thinking ahead
  I was required to read this book for my Masters in a class oddly enough called "Democracy and Education". This book contains information that has to be read and reread, and then the book needs to be put down for a moment in order to wrap your mind around what was just interpreted on the page. At least this is how I read the book. Needless to say, I didn't read this book in one day.
  This book is a dense study, but that doesn't mean it isn't good material. It is very deep and times complex. I am a pretty... more info

• A must read for anyone in the education field
  I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and I understand all of the goals Dewey envisioned. He was a brilliant man. I strongly recommend that you read this book first and then read Left Back by Diane Ravitch to learn how and why the progressive movement failed.

• This book was...
  Fantastic; a book I would recommend to just about anyone. To address some of the critics mentioned in the other reviews: RE: "Dewey Dogma" (1) There is absolutely no pretense of an application of the scientific method, hence there can be no mis-application; (2) This book strikes me personally as one of the least dogmatic things I've ever read in my life. The ideas are fresh, original, and beautiful crafted and ordered; (3) "Education is Socialization" - an equation of broadly construed "-tions" that results... more info

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