Boston : Pearson/A and B, 2004 Classic ed., 5th ed.
Table of Contents:
“…Intellectual organization and adaptation -- Intellectual development and other factors -- Sensorimotor development -- The development of preoperational thought -- The development of concrete operations -- The development of formal operations -- Further aspects of Piaget's theory -- The implications of Piaget's theory for education : principles of constructivism -- Applications.…”
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“…Phillips -- Philosophy as the General Theory of Education / John Dewey -- The Relations of Philosophy and Science in the Study of Education / William H. …”
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“…Thorndike and Connectionism -- Background -- The Theory -- The Theory Applied to Specific Topics -- Observations about Thorndike's Influence on Learning Theory -- Attempts to Apply the Learning Theory in Education -- Educational R & D Implications -- Chapter 8: Ivan P. …”
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“…The pre-socratics, Socrates, the minor socratics -- Proverbial thought and the philosophy of nature -- Proverbial philosophy -- Pythagoreanism -- Pythagoreans in politics -- Heraclitus -- Natural analogies in politicalthought at Athens -- The state and nature and the social contract -- Disturbance of ancient custom -- Anthropology -- The sophists -- Protagoras and Gorgias -- Man the maker -- Meaning of nature in the sphere of morality -- Might is right -- Social contract -- Superiority of a state of nature -- General iconoclasm -- The sophists and encyclopaedists -- Political pamphlets -- Ideal constitutions -- Socrates and his lesser followers -- Know thyself -- Socrates a prophet -- Scientific thinking -- Aristocratic tendency of Socrates' politics -- Socrates a conservative -- And yet a Radical -- Over-intellectualism of Socrates' views -- Xenophon's Cyropaedia -- Cynic cosmopolitanism -- The cyrenaics -- Plato and the platonic dialogue the defence of Socrates -- The life of Plato -- Plato the political reformaer -- The use of the dialogue -- Criticism of common opinion -- Use of analogy -- Dangers of analogy -- The earlier dialogue of Plato -- The apology a defense of resistance -- The Crito an explanation of obedience -- Viture is knowledge, and therefore teachable -- The Meno -- The Protagoras the sophist's view -- Socrates' refutation of Protagoras -- The Euthydemus on political art -- The Gorgias concerning shams -- Sham statesmanship -- The republic, or concerning Justice -- The plan and motives of the republic -- Plan of the republic -- Division of the republic -- The republic and economics -- The republic directed against sophists -- Attack on contemporary politics -- Political ignorance -- Political selfishness -- Connection of sophistic teaching and contemporary politics -- Plato's remedy -- The prima facie theory of justice -- Thrasymachus' definition of justice -- Plato's formal reply -- Glaucon's conception of justice -- Objections to Glaucon's conception -- Plato's methods of answering Glaucon -- Plato's construction of the state and discovery of true justice -- Parallel of man and the state -- Plato's psychology -- Psychological construction of a state -- Appetitive or economic element -- Spirited or military element -- Rational or governing element -- Character of the government -- Three class system -- Criticism of class system -- Advantages of division -- Justice discovered in the state -- Value of Plato's conception of Justice -- Plato's theory of education -- A new education propounded -- Contemporary Greek education -- Plato's use of existing materials -- Psychological basis of his scheme -- Education in its various stages -- Instruments of education -- Education culminates the idea of the good -- The state and its rulers in relation to the idea of the good -- Art as an instrument of education -- Moral reform of art -- The morality of art -- Province of the state in respect of art -- The education of reason -- Relation of the trained ruler to the state -- Communism -- Relation of platonic communism to education -- Communism necessary to the rule of reason -- Communism of property: its scope and character -- Communism of wives -- Plato's dislike of the household -- The emancipation of women -- Plato's scheme of marriage -- Low view of marriage -- Plato's asceticim -- Reactionary spirit of the Republic -- Relation of communism to personality -- Plato destroys the basis of personality -- Organic theory of the state -- Limitations of that theory -- The Republic as an ideal -- Plato and the tyranny of reason -- Plato's view of monarchy, and of the mixed state -- The absolute monarch -- The Republic and absolute monarchy -- The aim of the politicus -- Knowledge the criterion of the statesman -- The statesman and the law -- The monarch as making for harmony -- Monarchy a flexible government -- Plato's classification of states -- Value of the republic as an ideal standard -- Previous attempts at classification -- Platonic classification -- Plato's sketch of changes not historical -- The practical purpose of the sketch -- The successive changes -- Plato's view of democracy -- The law state and the mixed constitution -- New atmosphere of the laws -- The laws and Aristotle's politics -- The laws in relation to the republic -- The state based on will -- Conception of law as the expression of rational will -- Plato's opinion of contemporary constitutions -- Historical sketch of the growth of the state -- Necessity of a mixed constitution -- Mixture of monarchy and democracy -- Foundation of a colony Government of the colony -- Economics structure of the colony -- Aristotle's criticism of the state of the laws -- Defects of the state of the laws -- Education in the laws -- Theory of punishment -- Epilogue to the laws -- Aristotle his life and times: the place of the politics in his system -- The sources of the politics -- Aristotle's relation to his predecessors -- Respect for popular opinion -- Extent of his political information -- The life of Aristotle -- Aristotle's easrly life -- Aristotle in Macedonia -- Aristotle and Athens -- The teleology of Aristotle -- Aristotle's conception of form ii Teleological view of the world -- Conception of nature -- Relation of nature and art -- The end as the cause of development -- The end as giving an organic conception of the state -- Criticism of the teleological method -- The kingdom of ends -- The end as criterion of classification and standard of distribution -- The end as limit -- The mean -- Aristotle's conception of the unity of the state -- Aristotle's conception of unity -- The nature of an assosciation -- Criticism of Plato -- The state as a compound -- Iner unity of the state: justice and friendship.…”