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It is in this context that I have suggested at the close of this little volume that those
who are looking ahead to a new movement in education, adapted to the existing
need for a new social order, should think in terms of Education itself rather than ...
It is in this context that I have suggested at the close of this little volume that those
who are looking ahead to a new movement in education, adapted to the existing
need for a new social order, should think in terms of Education itself rather than ...
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The gap is so great that the required subject-matter, the methods of learning and
of behaving are foreign to the existing capacities of the young. They are beyond
the reach of the experience the young learners already possess. Consequently ...
The gap is so great that the required subject-matter, the methods of learning and
of behaving are foreign to the existing capacities of the young. They are beyond
the reach of the experience the young learners already possess. Consequently ...
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It thus becomes the office of the educator to select those things within the range
of existing experience that have the promise and potentiality of presenting new
problems which by stimulating new ways of observation and judgment will
expand ...
It thus becomes the office of the educator to select those things within the range
of existing experience that have the promise and potentiality of presenting new
problems which by stimulating new ways of observation and judgment will
expand ...
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Contents
THE NEED OF A THEORY OF EX PERIENCE | 12 |
CRITERIA OF EXPERIENCE | 23 |
SOCIAL CONTROL | 53 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Experience and Education Issue 10 of The Kappa Delta Pi lecture series |
| Author | John Dewey |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
| Length | 116 pages |
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