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Chinonye David replied to the topic The Democratic Conception in Education in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 5 months ago
5. Education as National and as Social. As soon as the first enthusiasm for freedom waned, the weakness of the theory on the constructive side became obvious. Merely to leave everything to nature was, after all, but to negate the very idea of education; it was to trust to the accidents of circumstance. Not only was some method required but also…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic The Democratic Conception in Education in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 5 months ago
4. The “Individualistic” Ideal of the Eighteenth Century. In eighteenth-century philosophy, we find ourselves in a very different circle of ideas. “Nature” still means something antithetical to the existing social organization; Plato greatly influenced Rousseau. But the voice of nature now speaks for the diversity of individual talent and for the…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic The Democratic Conception in Education in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 5 months ago
3. The Platonic Educational Philosophy. Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of democratic ideas in education. In the remaining portions of this chapter, we shall consider the educational theories which have evolved in three epochs when the social import of education was especially conspicuous. The first one to…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic The Democratic Conception in Education in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 5 months ago
2. The Democratic Ideal. The two elements in our criterion both point to democracy. The first signifies not only more numerous and more varied points of shared common interest but greater reliance upon the recognition of mutual interests as a factor in social control. The second means not only freer interaction between social groups (once isolated…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic The Democratic Conception in Education in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 5 months ago
I. Let us apply the first element in this criterion to a despotically governed state. It is not true there is no common interest in such an organization between governed and governors. The authorities in command must make some appeal to the native activities of the subjects and must call some of their powers into play. Talleyrand said that a…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic The Democratic Conception in Education in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 5 months ago
1. The Implications of Human Association. Society is one word, but many things. Men associate together in all kinds of ways and for all kinds of purposes. One man is concerned with a multitude of diverse groups, in which his associates may be quite different. It often seems as if they had nothing in common except that they are modes of associated…[Read more]
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Chinonye David started the topic The Democratic Conception in Education in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 5 months ago
For the most part, save incidentally, we have hitherto been concerned with education as it may exist in any social group. We have now to make explicit the differences in the spirit, material, and method of education as it operates in different types of community life. To say that education is a social function, securing direction and development…[Read more]
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Chinonye David started the topic Hubert Humphrey Fellowships in USA for International Students in the forum Scholarship Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
USA Government
Non-degree
Deadline: before 1 Oct (annual)
Study in: USA
Program starts Apr-Sept 2024
Brief description:
The Humphrey Fellowship Program is for experienced professionals interested in strengthening their leadership skills through a mutual exchange of knowledge and understanding about issues of common concern in t…[Read more]
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Chinonye David started the topic New Discovery from the Most Powerful Space Telescope in the forum Astronomy Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
in 2021 the James webb telescope was launched … a telescope that cost about 10 billion dollars to construct. And in July 2022.. it became operational. It’s been less than a year now and some of its discoveries in the universe have begun to make scientists scratch their heads.
All of a sudden, scientists may have to rewrite all the science tex…[Read more]
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Chinonye David started the topic Edinburgh Global Online Distance Learning Scholarships in the forum Scholarship Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
University of Edinburgh
Online Masters Degree
Deadline: 5 June 2023 (Annual)
Study in: any Country (online)
Course starts Sept 2023
Brief description: The University of Edinburgh will offer scholarships for eligible part-time distance learning Master’s programmes offered by the University.
Host Institution(s): University of Ed…[Read more]
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Chinonye David started the topic Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships for Developing Commonwealth Countrie in the forum Scholarship Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
DFID/UK Universities
Online Masters Degree
Deadline: 28 March 2023 (annual)
Study in: any Country
Course starts September 2023
Brief description:
Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships are for candidates from least developed and lower middle income Commonwealth countries, for part-time Master’s study by distance learning o…[Read more]
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Chinonye David and Ayinde are now friends 1 year, 7 months ago
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Chinonye David replied to the topic Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
It remains only to point out (what will receive more ample attention later) that the reconstruction of experience may be social as well as personal. For purposes of simplification, we have spoken in the earlier chapters somewhat as if the education of the immature which fills them with the spirit of the social group to which they belong, were a…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
(2) The other side of an educative experience is the added power of subsequent direction or control. To say that one knows what he is about, or can intend certain consequences, is to say, of course, that he can better anticipate what is going to happen; that he can, therefore, get ready or prepare in advance so as to secure beneficial consequences…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
(1) The distortion of the first point usually comes about through misuse of the idea of heredity. It is assumed that heredity means that past life has somehow predetermined the main traits of an individual and that they are so fixed that little serious change can be introduced into them. Thus taken, the influence of heredity is opposed to that of…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
In the first place, its biological basis is fallacious. Embryonic growth of the human infant preserves, without doubt, some of the traits of lower forms of life. But in no respect is it a strict traversing of past stages. If there were any strict “law” of repetition, evolutionary development would clearly not have taken place. Each new generation…[Read more]
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Chinonye David started the topic Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
A peculiar combination of the ideas of development and formation from without has given rise to the recapitulation theory of education, biological and cultural. The individual develops, but his proper development consists in repeating in orderly stages the past evolution of animal life and human history. The former recapitulation occurs…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic Education as Conservative and Progressive in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
Herbart’s great service lay in taking the work of teaching out of the region of routine and accident. He brought it into the sphere of conscious method; it became a conscious business with a definite aim and procedure, instead of being a compound of casual inspiration and subservience to tradition.
Moreover, everything in teaching and discipline…[Read more]
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Chinonye David replied to the topic Education as Conservative and Progressive in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
The concrete character of the mind consists, then, wholly of the various arrangements formed by the various presentations in their different qualities. The “furniture” of the mind is the mind. Mind is wholly a matter of “contents.” The educational implications of this doctrine are threefold.
(1) This or that kind of mind is formed by the use of…[Read more]
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Chinonye David started the topic Education as Conservative and Progressive in the forum Education Forum 1 year, 7 months ago
1. Education as Formation. We now come to a type of theory which denies the existence of faculties and emphasizes the unique role of subject matter in the development of mental and moral disposition. According to it, education is neither a process of unfolding from within nor is it training of faculties residents in mind itself. It is rather the…[Read more]
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