Functional reading and democratic living

Autor:	Ullin W. Leavell
Rok vydání:	1939
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Realization (linguistics) Constructive Democracy Ideal (ethics) Education Epistemology Embodied cognition Reading (process) Developmental and Educational Psychology Social consciousness Sociology Primary problem media_common
Zdroj:	Peabody Journal of Education. 17:121-126
ISSN:	1532-7930 0161-956X
DOI:	10.1080/01619563909535563
Popis:	I believe that we will all agree at the outset of this, the Third Annual Reading Laboratory Institute that the primary problem of education in this country is embodied in the democratic ideal. Fundamentally, our great concern is that of devising ways and means of perpetuating the most constructive way of life. More specifically, the problem is one of educating the people to an understanding of and participation in their collective and mutually important affairs. For, as has been pointed out by Rugg,' the desiderata of democracy are "understanding" and "intelligent approval." What then does a program of reading instruction in the school have to contribute to the realization of such an ideal? The answer may be stated in the following words: The stimulation of the individual to a high degree of social awareness' through the enrichment of experience by the functional use of reading offers society its most powerful weapon for achieving or, at least of approximating the achievement of the values inherent in the democratic concept. Further, what is the nature of a functional type of reading that will stimulate the individual to a high degree of social awareness and make his understanding of
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