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John Dewey’s Many Definitions of Democracy

1. A political system, involving such institutions as "universal suffrage, recurring elections, responsibility of those who are in political power to the voters..." 2. Government by the consent of the governed. 3. An educational process. 4. An educational principle. 5. An educational system, one in which all participate in making the decision and all make contributions to the ...

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Educational Foundations: Societal Engineering

John Dewey, the "father" of contemporary American education, advanced the notion that schools should be a center where students are brought up in the methods & practices of society.  Further, schools should be the epicenter for any and all revisions and modification that "we" think need to be made of society.  The schools are effectively, ...

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