MODERN EDUCATIONAL THEORIES

BOYD H. BODE MODERN EDUCATIONAL THEORIES The purpose of this volume is primarily to assist the reader in securing perspective with reference to the various movements and tendencies that are embodied in the educational thinking of the present time. We are in a period of exceptional educational activity, which makes orientation both more difficult and more important. . . .The task of orientation is peculiarly difficult at present for the reason that our whole social organization is in process of change. This change is due in part to the fact that occupations and modes of living have been profoundly affected by the applications of science. But what is even more significant is the change that is being wrought in our outlook on life. The democratic movement in society is refashioning our conceptions of the individual and of the social order, our standards of conduct, and our political, industrial, and religious creeds. It goes without saying that a movement of this sort is intimately bound up with changes in the theory and practice of education. BOYD H. BODE was born in Ridott, Illinois. He was graduated from the University of Michigan and took his Ph.D. at Cornell. He became Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois. He went to the Ohio State University as Professor of Education and spent the remainder of his teaching career there. Among his published books are Modern Educational Theories, Democracy as a Way of Life, Progressive Education at the Crossroads, and How We Learn.

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