Description
Book SynopsisThis book talks of perhaps one of the greatest education experiments in the history of America. In 1894 John Dewey moved his position as Chairman of the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan to assume the position as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Psychology, and Pedagogy at the University of Chicago. He would remain there until 1904, his departure prompted in great part by his dissatisfaction regarding his wife''s treatment by the administration in her role of principal of the Laboratory School. At this time Dewey was anxious to translate his more abstract ideas into practical form and he saw the position at Chicago affording him a rare opportunity to do this.
The school itself was conceived by Dewey as having an organic functional relation to the theoretical curriculum. Just as Dewey was anxious to merge philosophy and psychology and to relate both of these disciplines to the theoretical study of education, similarly he saw the school as a laboratory
Table of Contents
I: Historical Development and Organization; I: General History; II: Experimental Basis of Curriculum; II: The Curriculum-Social Occupations; III: Experimental Practices Developing the Curriculum; IV: Household Occupations; V: Social Occupations Serving The Household; VI: Progress Through Invention and Discovery; VII: Progress Through Exploration and Discovery; VIII: Local History; IX: Colonial History and The Revolution; X: European Background of The Colonists; XI: Experiments in Specialized Activities; XII: Experiments in Specialized Activities; XIII: Experiments in Specialized Activities; XIV: Principles of Growth Guiding Selection of Activities; III: Educational Use of Scientific Method; XV: Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts; XVI: Experimental Activities Developing Origins and Backgrounds of Social Life; XVII: Experimental Activities Developing Skills in Communication and Expression; IV: Personnel—Organization—Evaluation; XVIII: Teachers and School Organization; XIX: Parents and Children; XX: Evaluation of Principles and Practices
