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- Title
Progressive Education and Social Planning.
- Authors
Feinberg, Walter
- Abstract
The article analyzes the educational ideas of John Dewey, an educator, regarding progressive education and social planning. The commitment of Dewey to a planned society meant that access to the labor market had to be controlled by some public institution and that production and consumption had to be more rationally supervised. Dewey cherished the qualities of initiative and perseverance which he believed to be part of the American character. He valued planning and individuality. Dewey's emphasis on scientific method and on democratic consensus must be perceived in the light of his desire for a rational society. Scientific objectivity was the means for bringing the interests of the individual in line with the needs of society and the school was the institution in which objectivity so defined was to be learned. Dewey believed that the scientific method (or intelligence) applied to human affairs would contribute to the enhancement of community and democracy. He believed that in the urban community, individuals would be removed from direct participation in producing life's goods.
- Subjects
DEWEY, John, 1859-1952; EDUCATORS; PROGRESSIVE education; SOCIAL planning; LABOR market; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSEVERANCE (Ethics); INDIVIDUALISM; PERSONALITY
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1972, Vol 73, Issue 4, p485
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146817207300408