Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey i. Education as a Necessity of Life 1. Renewal of Life by Transmission 2. Education and Communication 3. The Place of Formal Education Summary 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 iii. Education as Direction 1. The Environment as Directive 2. Modes of Social Direction 3. Imitation and Social Psychology 4. Some Applications to Education Summary 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 v. Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline 1. Education as Preparation 2. Education as Unfolding 3. Education as Training of Faculties Summary vi.
Education as Conservative and Progressive 1. Education as Formation 2. Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection 3. Education as Reconstruction Summary vii. The Democratic Conception in Education 1. The Implications of Human Association 2. The Democratic Ideal 3. The Platonic Educational Philosophy 4.
The "Individualistic" Ideal of the Eighteenth Century 5. Education as National and as Social Summary viii. Aims in Education 1. The Nature of an Aim 2. The Criteria of Good Aims 3. Applications in Education Summary ix. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims 1. Nature as Supplying the Aim 2.
Social Efficiency as Aim 3. Culture as Aim Summary x. Interest and Discipline 1. The Meaning of the Terms 2. The Importance of the Idea of Interest in Education 3. Some Social Aspects of the Question Summary xi. Experience and Thinking 1. The Nature of Experience 2.
Reflection in Experience Summary xii. Thinking in Education 1. The Essentials of Method Summary xiii. The Nature of Method 1. The Unity of Subject Matter and Method 2. Method as General and as Individual 3. The Traits of Individual Method Summary 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 Knowledge 4. Subject Matter as Social Summary xv. Play and Work in the Curriculum 1. The Place of Active Occupations in Education 2. Available Occupations 3. Work and Play Summary 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 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 xviii.
Educational Values 1. The Nature of Realization or Appreciation 2. The Valuation of Studies 3. The Segregation and Organization of Values Summary xix. Labor and Leisure 1. The Origin of the Opposition 2. The Present Situation Summary xx. Intellectual and Practical Studies 1.
The Opposition of Experience and True Knowledge 2. The Modern Theory of Experience and Knowledge 3. Experience as Experimentation Summary xxi. Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism 1. The Historic Background of Humanistic Study 2. The Modern Scientific Interest in Nature 3. The Present Educational Problem Summary xxii. The Individual and the World 1.
Mind as Purely Individual 2. Individual Mind as the Agent of Reorganization 3. Educational Equivalents Summary xxiii. Vocational Aspects of Education 1. The Meaning of Vocation 2. The Place of Vocational Aims in Education 3. Present Opportunities and Dangers Summary xxiv. Philosophy of Education 1.
A Critical Review 2. The Nature of Philosophy Summary xxv. Theories of Knowledge 1. Continuity versus Dualism 2. Schools of Method Summary xxvi. Theories of Morals 1. The Inner and Outer 2. The Opposition of Duty and Interest 3.
Intelligence and Character 4. The Social and the Moral Summary About the Text About the Series.