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Show 64 science, mechanic arts, and industrial many liberal by which panaceas reformers urban, agricultural, and industrial No as had one much of his (1915) education became important hoped crises. faith in practical more writing during and Democracy and education than John Dewey, Accordinq moral of changes nected with day pub 1 i c Education (1916), written industrial on. practical education by near 112 . thought on Dewey, the political, intellectual, and to made Democracy and Educa t i . name, but the implication is "questions problem education the most important . the end of the most mature early twentieth-century America educa ti Schools of Tomorrow the period attests. period under treatment, perhaps represent his the subject. solve the nation's to on con- of present- does not ment ion unmistakable: Both practically and philosophically, the key to the present educational situation lies in a gradual reconstruction of school materials and methods so as to utilize various forms of occupation typifying social callings, and to bring out their intellectual This reconstruction must relegate purely and moral content. literary methods--inc1uding textbooks--and dialectical methods to 3 the position of necessary auxiliary tools. Practical education from its It had its critics, with little intended to to be sure; but inception was rather well received. eventually widespread acceptance thought of specific vocations. Manual training was often enlarge one's general knowledge and complement the tradi Vocational education, on emphasis upon the intellect. connoted preparation for specific vocations with little general education. The term practical education does not tional, liberal the other hand, emphasis on satisfactorilv describe the entire movement, but it does eliminate the restricted meanings associated with manual training or vocational education. unnecessarilyV E. P. 2John Dewey and Evelyn Dewey, Schools of Tomorrow (New York: Company, 1915), p. 230. Dutton and 3John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: Press, 1966), o . 315. The Free |
