Psychology and Social Practice

Psychology and Social Practice

All corrections are underlined with a dotted line. The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text. A list of corrections to the text can be found at the end of the document. Inconsistencies in spelling or hyphenation have not been corrected. In coming before you I had hoped to deal with the problem of the relation of psychology to the social sciencesand through them to social practice, to life itself. Naturally, in anticipation, I had conceived a systematic exposition of fundamental principles covering the whole ground, and giving every factor its due rating and position. That discussion is not ready today. I am loath, however, completely to withdraw from the subject, especially as there happens to be a certain phase of it with which I have been more or less practically occupied within the last few years. I have in mind the relation of psychology to education. Since education is primarily a social affair, and since educational science is first of all a social science, we have here a section of the whole field. In some respects there may be an advantage in approaching the more comprehensive question through the medium of one of its special cases. The absence [pg 08] of elaborated and coherent view may be made up for by a background of experience, which shall check the projective power of reflective abstraction, and secure a translation of large words and ideas into specific images. This special territory, moreover, may be such as to afford both sign-posts and broad avenues to the larger spherethe place of psychology among the social sciences. Because I anticipate such an outcome, and because I shall make a survey of the broad field from the special standpoint taken, I make no apology for presenting this discussion to an association of psychologists rather than to a gathering of educators. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 40744
Author: Dewey, John
Release Date: Sep 13, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English