What are democracy and education for?

pp. 1-28

in: John Shook, Dewey's social philosophy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Abstract

John Dewey's Integration of Education and Democracy Encompasses, immediately or remotely, not just his social and political principles, but also his commitments across psychology, epistemology, ontology, axiology, ethics, and legal theory. Fully comprehending Dewey's educational theory, including how he defends it and how he would put it into practice, is to fairly understand his entire philosophy. He did assert that "Philosophy is the theory of education as a deliberately conducted enterprise."¹