Smith, Philip L,

Sources of progressive thought in American education /by Philip L. Smith. - Washington, District of Columbia : University Press of America, (c)1980. - xii, 203 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Progressive educational thought -- Chauncey Wright's critiques of formalism -- The visionary speculations -- epistemology and the pragmatic maxim -- Peirce's cosmology -- William James' return to metaphysics -- G.H. Mead's social behaviorism -- John Dewey's "so-called" instrumentalism -- Progressive educational thought in perspective.



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Education--Philosophy--History.

LA216 / .S687 1980 LA216