Psychology and Social Practice

by John Dewey

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Psychology and Social Practice introduces the problem of psychology’s relation to the social sciences and, through them, to social practice and life itself. The discussion identifies its main question as whether psychological science’s study of mechanism is indifferent and opposed to education’s free interplay of personalities. The argument says teachers already possess specific psychological assumptions that control both their theory and their practice.

The analysis attributes a teacher’s substitution of momentary impulse for dead routine and arbitrary discipline to a partial and defective psychology. The discussion describes psychology as stating the mechanism through which conscious value and meaning enter human experience.

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John Dewey

Dewey argued that a school teaching children to sit still and repeat is training them for a society that no longer exists, and that democracy is less a form of government than a way of living together that has to be practised daily. Democracy and Education is the fullest statement of it.