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Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
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Tag Archives: Dewey

Eight Takes on Play

By gtdonovan | Published: 11.23.2009
From John Dewey‘s Democracy and Education, pp 205-206: It is important not to confuse the psychological distinction between play and work with the economic distinction. Psychologically, the defining characteristic of play is not amusement nor aimlessness. It is the fact that the aim is thought of as more activity in the same line, without defining [...]
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information assimilation and the life of the child

By gtdonovan | Published: 03.29.2008
From Dewey’s The School and Society, p100: It was forgotten that the maximum appeal, and the full meaning in the life of the child, could be secured only when the studies were presented, not as bare external studies, but from the standpoint of the relation they bear to the life of society. It was forgotten [...]
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