The School and Society

Contents: 1. The school and social progress (1909). 2. The school and the life of the child (1907). 3. Waste in education (1907). 4. Three years of the university elementary school (1907). 5. The psychology of elementary education (1915). 6. Froebel\'s educational principles (1915). 7. The psychology of occupations (1915). 8. The development of attention (1915). 9. The aim of history in elementary education (1915).

"The School and Society may be Dewey\'s most popular (and most translated) publication. It describes the rationale behind the university elementary school that made his pedagogic approach famous.

Dewey\'s approach to education is the basis of Mead\'s later work on educational reform, particularly as that work relates to vocational education and approaches to curriculum development in general.

First published in 1990, The School and Society is regarded as the seminal work on educational ideas by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century." (jacket)