This edition features large print and Atkinson Hyperlegible font (a new typeface created in partnership with Braille Institute - greater legibility and readability for low vision readers). John Dewey was a prominent American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. His ideas and philosophies, especially pragmatism, have had a significant impact on education and social change. He is also recognized as one of the pioneers in the field...

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between, the immaturity of the newborn members of the group, its future sole representatives - and the maturity of the adult members, who possess the knowledge and customs of the group. On the other hand, there is the necessity that these immature members be not merely...

The Subjection of Women by John Mill was first published in 1869, written in 1861 about women's rights. The ideas from this essay John developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. John Mill was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century, and English philosopher, and a civil servant and Member of the Parliament. John shows us how institutions are vital to the happiness of society and to the individual and as these institutions are...

Though he did not coin the phrase "Progressive Education", American philosopher and psychologist, John Dewey, has historically been associated with this modern educational method. In these two works, "The School and Society" and "The Child and Curriculum", Dewey lays out his philosophies of pragmatism, educational reform, and his advocacy of democracy. In a time when education focused primarily on rote memorization and passive acquisition of knowledge,...

American education as we know it today-guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country-is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner Lectures, Danielle Allen brings us much closer, examining the ideological impasse between vocational and humanistic approaches that has plagued educational discourse, offering a compelling proposal...

Reinvigorates Jürgen Habermas' early critical theory. The first close study of Jürgen Habermas's theory of socialization, a central but infrequently discussed component of his defense of deliberative democracy, The Idolatry of the Actual charts its increasingly uneasy relationship with the later development of Habermas's social theory. In particular, David A. Borman argues that Habermas's account of the development of the subject and of the conditions...

Este libro, dirigido no solo a investigadores que trabajan temas relacionados con la filosofía de la educación y la filosofía política, sino también a directivos y profesores de colegios y estudiantes de licenciatura en filosofía y humanidades, se ha estructurado en torno a tres puntos clave: el papel que cumple la filosofía en la educación y cómo los cambios en el sistema educativo están afectando el quehacer de esta disciplina; las didácticas...

En estas páginas se ahonda en el caudal inestimable de sabiduría espiritual que la Iglesia ha ido atesorando a través de la lectura que durante siglos ha hecho de las Sagradas Escrituras y que custodia celosamente como un depósito capaz de seguir ayudando al hombre de hoy, ávido de acompañamiento. No hay mejores maestros en acompañar que Cristo y la Iglesia, ni un lenguaje más certero ni una experiencia más penetrante que lo que la Revelación...

La vida humana es una travesía. Séneca se la imagina como un viaje de Italia a la ciudad de Siracusa, en Sicilia. En el recorrido habrá peligros, contratiempos, tormentas y también quietud e incomparables maravillas. Con esa metáfora de la navegación, el filósofo nos hace adentrarnos en los anhelos de la existencia humana: el dar sentido a la vida y al tiempo, la búsqueda de la felicidad y la gloria; pero también, en sus pruebas y enigmas:...

L'éthique de l'environnement se penche tantt sur des conceptions purement philosophiques, tantt sur des approches plutt politiques ou sociologiques, et enfin sur des données scientifiques, mais qui se réorientent toujours vers la réflexion philosophique. Que ce soit de comprendre la valeur octroyée à la nature, de saisir la complexité de l'interrelation des trois sphères du développement durable, de s'approprier les conceptions fondamentales...