Education as a necessity of life
Education as a social function
Preparation, unfolding, and formal discipline
Education as conservative and progressive
The democratic conception in education
Natural development and social efficiency as aims
The nature of subect matter
Play and work in the curriculum
The significance of geography and history
Science in the course of study
Intellectual and practical studies
Physical and social studies: naturalism and humanism
The individual and the world
Vocational aspects of education
Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction (Patricia H. Hinchey); Chapter I. Education as a Necessity of Life; 1. Renewal of Life by Transmission; 2. Education and Communication; 3. The Place of Formal Education; Summary; Chapter II. Education as a Social Function; 1. The Nature and Meaning of Environment; 2. The Social Environment; 3. The Social Medium as Educative; 4. The School as a Special Environment; Summary; Chapter III. Education as Direction; 1. The Environment as Directive; 2. Modes of Social Direction; 3. Imitation and Social Psychology
4. Some Applications to EducationSummary; Chapter IV. Education as Growth; 1. The Conditions of Growth; 2. Habits as Expressions of Growth; 3. The Educational Bearings of the Conception of Development; Summary; Chapter V. Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline; 1. Education as Preparation; 2. Education as Unfolding; 3. Education as Training of Faculties; Summary; Chapter VI. Education as Conservative and Progressive; 1. Education as Formation; 2. Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection; 3. Education as Reconstruction; Summary; Chapter VII. The Democratic Conception in Education
1. The Implications of Human Association2. The Democratic Ideal; 3. The Platonic Educational Philosophy; 4. The "Individualistic" Ideal of the Eighteenth Century; 5. Education as National and as Social; Summary; Chapter VIII. Aims in Education; 1. The Nature of an Aim; 2. The Criteria of Good Aims; 3. Applications in Education; Summary; Chapter XI. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims; 1. Nature as Supplying the Aim; 2. Social Efficiency as Aim; 3. Culture as Aim; Summary; Chapter X. Interest and Discipline; 1. The Meaning of the Terms
2. The Importance of the Idea of Interest in Education3. Some Social Aspects of the Question; Summary; Chapter XI. Experience and Thinking; 1. The Nature of Experience; 2. Reflection in Experience; Summary; Chapter XII. Thinking in Education; 1. The Essentials of Method; Summary; Chapter XIII. The Nature of Method; I. The Unity of Subject Matter and Method; 2. Method as General and as Individual; 3. The Traits of Individual Method; Summary; Chapter XIV. The Nature of Subject Matter; 1. Subject Matter of Educator and of Learner; 2. The Development of Subject Matter in the Learner
3. Science or Rationalized Knowledge4. Subject Matter as Social; Summary; Chapter XV. Play and Work in the Curriculum; 1. The Place of Active Occupations in Education; 2. Available Occupations; 3. Work and Play; Summary; Chapter XVI. The Significance of Geography and History; 1. Extension of Meaning of Primary Activities; 2. The Complementary Nature of History and Geography; 3. History and Present Social Life; Summary; Chapter XVII. Science in the Course of Study; 1. The Logical and the Psychological; 2. Science and Social Progress; 3. Naturalism and Humanism in Education; Summary
