Dewey, Discipline, and Democracy: Democracy and Education 100 Years Later

• In Event: Contemporary Applications and Analyses of Dewey's Philosophy of Education

Abstract

This paper revisits Democracy and Education with the purpose of recuperating Dewey's understanding of the nature and importance of "discipline" and conforming education to the "interest of the child," two parts of Dewey's work (and therefore of progressive education) widely misunderstood by both Dewey's critics and his supporters.

Author

• John F. Covaleskie, University of Oklahoma