Philosophy of Education

by Mead,George Herbert

• ISBN13: 9781594515309
• ISBN10: 1594515301
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead's illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures provide unique insight into Mead's educational thought and reveal how his early psychological writings on the social character of meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness was central in the development of what Mead referred to as his social conception of education. The introduction to the book provides an overview of Mead's educational thought and places it against the wider social, intellectual, and historical background of modern educational concepts.

Table of Contents

Introduction: George Herbert Mead and the Development of a Social Conception of Education	p. 1
Editing Principles	p. 17
George Herbert Mead's Lectures on Philosophy of Education
Education and the Intellectual Process of Community Life	p. 21
So-Called Education in Lower Animals Compared with Conscious Education in the Child	p. 24
Language, Communication, and Human Consciousness	p. 29
Play, Initiation, and Cult: The Origin and Development of Value Judgments	p. 33
Cult, Magic, and Myth: A Psychological Analysis of Perception	p. 38
The Social Nature of Cult	p. 43
Psychology of Worth and Reality, Myth and Explanation: Thinking and Social Consciousness	p. 48
Two Forms of Perception and the Aesthetic Phase of Reflective Consciousness	p. 57
The Role of the Aesthetic Object in Reflective Consciousness	p. 62
The Aesthetic Object and the Working Image	p. 67
Expression and Emotion	p. 71
Gesture, Communication, and Consciousness of Meaning	p. 75
Cult, Myth, and Education	p. 79
The Three Stages of the Act and the Relationship between Intercourse and Thought	p. 83
Gesture, Conversation, and Consciousness of Meaning	p. 87
The Function of the Aesthetic Image in Thought	p. 91
Cult and Myth in Greek Society	p. 96
Myth, Community, and Education	p. 100
Greek Science and Education	p. 103
The Social Origin of Greek Science	p. 107
The Role of Education in the Development of Greek Science	p. 111
The Aesthetic Object and the Social Origin of Reflection	p. 115
Pythagoras, Subjective Consciousness, and Abstraction	p. 122
Abstraction and Generalization in the Thought Process	p. 126
The Role of Abstraction in Reflective Thought	p. 130
Abstraction and Magic	p. 133
The Scientific Method and Education	p. 136
Socratic Education and the Role of Method	p. 140
From Greek Science to Modern Science	p. 144
Bacon, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, and the Consciousness of Method	p. 148
The Social Character of the Reflective Process	p. 152
Education, Explanation, and Science	p. 156
The Phases of the Process of Thinking: Historical and Psychological	p. 159
Science, Education, and Method: The Role of the Aesthetic Form	p. 163
The Aesthetic Form and Scientific Method	p. 167
The Stages of the Reflective Process	p. 170
Education and the Conveying of Meanings	p. 172
Language, Communication, and Meaning in Education	p. 177
Works Cited by Mead	p. 179
References	p. 182
Index	p. 186
About the Editors	p. 195
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