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Democracy and education

Here are entered works on the relationship between education and democracy and the role of education in the democratization process. Works on the teaching of democratic principles in school for the purpose of preparing students for active citizenship are entered under Citizenship -- Study and teaching or Civics -- Study and teaching. Works on the teaching of democracy are entered under Democracy -- Study and teaching.

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• Education

• Democracy and education -- Czechoslovakia
• Democracy and education -- United States

• Education and democracy

• Academic Freedom in a Plural World: Global Critical Perspectives (Budapest et al: Central European University Press, c2024), ed. by Nandini Ramanujam and Frédéric Mégret (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Training in Democracy: The New Schools of Czechoslovakia (New York: Inor Pub. Co., 1938), by Francis H. Stuerm, contrib. by W. Carson Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)

• What Universities Owe Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2021), by Ronald J. Daniels, contrib. by Grant Shreve and Phillip Spector (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Schools in Crisis: Training for Success of Failure? (electronic edition; Houston: Advance Publishins, 2009), by Carl Sommer (PDF files at advancepublishing.com)
• The Child and the Curriculum (28th impression; Chicago et al.: University of Chicago Press, 1966), by John Dewey
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (Everyman's Library #504; London: Dent; New York: Dutton, reprinted 1963), by Herbert Spencer, contrib. by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Only by Understanding: Education and International Organization (with "Post-War Social Education" by Roy A. Price; Headline Series #52; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1945), by William G. Carr, contrib. by Roy A. Price (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Abstracts of Dissertations and Theses in Education at the University of Michigan, 1917-1931 (Ann Arbor: Bureau of Educational Reference and Research, School of Education, University of Michigan, ca. 1932), by University of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four Essentials of Education (New York et al.: C. Scribner's sons, c1926), by Thomas Jesse Jones, contrib. by Franklin Henry Giddings and Michael Sadler (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1926), by Bertrand Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina in Gerard Hall (Raleigh, NC: Printed by T. Loring, 1844), by James B. Shepard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cambridge Essays on Education (1919), ed. by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• The Century of the Child (New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1909), by Ellen Key, trans. by Francis Maro (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Child Under Eight (1920), by E. R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Comenius' School of Infancy: An Essay on the Education of Youth During the First Six Years (Boston: D. C. Heath, 1896), by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by W. S. Monroe (PDF files at Roehampton)
• The Culture Demanded by Modern Life: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education, by Edward Livingston Youmans (page images at MOA)
• Education (Oakland, CA et al.: Pacific Press Pub. Co., c1903), by Ellen G. White (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Education and the Philosophical Ideal (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Horatio W. Dresser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Education as Service, by J. Krishnamurti (Gutenberg text)
• Education: Its Relations to the State and to the Individual, and Its Methods, by George Ferdinand Becker (page images at MOA)
• The Education of the Child, by Ellen Key (Gutenberg text)
• Facts in Jingles (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1915), by Winifred Sackville Stoner, ed. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Froebel's Chief Writings on Education (London: Edward Arnold, 1912), by Friedrich Fröbel, trans. by Samuel Sigmund Fechheimer Fletcher and James Welton (PDF files at Roehampton)
• How Gertrude Teaches Her Children: An Attempt to Help Mothers to Teach Their Children and an Account of the Method (London: S. Sonnenschein; Syracuse, NY: C.W. Bardeen, 1894), by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, ed. by Ebenezer Cooke, trans. by Lucy E. Holland and Francis C. Turner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF files at Roehampton
• Lecture on the Duties and Relations of Parents, Teachers and Pupils, by Charles Davies (page images at MOA)
• Levana: or, The Doctrine of Education (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1874), by Jean Paul
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Levana: or, The Doctrine of Education (with biographical material; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1891), by Jean Paul (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1916), by Winifred Sackville Stoner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Means and Ends of Universal Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• The Metaphysics of Education (Boston: Mayhew Pub. Co., 1914), by Arthur C. Fleshman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Inquiries: Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1867), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1914), by Winifred Sackville Stoner, contrib. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Plain Educational Talks with Teachers and Parents, by Albert N. Raub (page images at MOA)
• Popular Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• Practical Education (second American edition, 2 volumes; Providence: J. F. Lippitt; Boston: T. B. Wait and Sons, 1815), by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Practical Education (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Progressive Education, Commencing With the Infant (Boston: W.D. Ticknor, 1835), by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, trans. by Emma Willard and Mrs. Lincoln Phelps (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Science and Education: Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• Science of Education (official Ontario normal school manual; Toronto: Ryerson Press, c1915), by Ontario Department of Education
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Science of Education, and Art of Teaching (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co., 1859), by John Ogden (page images at MOA)
• The Scientific Basis of Education, by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
• The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (Columbia doctoral dissertation; Chicago et al.: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1941), by Orra Ervin Underhill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Limitations of the Educational Theory of John Dewey (doctoral dissertation; Washington: Catholic University of America, 1929), by James Henry O'Hara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Before Books (New York: Adelphi Co., c1926), by Caroline Pratt and Jessie Stanton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities, by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)
• Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1915), by Will Levington Comfort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1916), by Will Levington Comfort (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Colloquies on Religion and Religious Education (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Education of Karl Witte: or, The Training of the Child (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1914), by Karl Heinrich Gottfried Witte, ed. by H. Addington Bruce, trans. by Leo Wiener
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at arahive.org
• The Enquirer (new edition; Edinburgh: J. Anderson, 1823), by William Godwin
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature, in a Series of Essays (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797), by William Godwin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)
• Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth (London: William Pickering, 1851), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Google)
• An Experiment With a Project Curriculum (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Ellsworth Collings, contrib. by William Heard Kilpatrick
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (London: Printed for J. Walker and Co., 1814), by Isaac Watts (page images at Google)
• Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction (London: Swarthmore Press, ca. 1919), by John Langdon-Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)
• The Parents' Manual: or, Home and School Training, by Hiram Orcutt (page images at MOA)
• The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• Study of Child Life (Chicago: American School of Home Economics, 1911), by Marion Foster Washburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Tempe Arjentino: ó, El Delta de los Rios Uruguay, Paraná y Plata, Con un Discurso Preliminar del A. Magariños Cervantes, y Seguido de los Consejos de Oro Sobre la Educacion (5th edition, in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Imp. Americana, 1870), by Marcos Sastre, contrib. by Alejandro Magariños Cervantes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household Education (London: E. Moxon, 1849), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lectures and Essays (London: Macmillan and Co., 1870), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mother's Book (Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831), by Lydia Maria Child (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Religion, Agnosticism, and Education (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1902), by John Lancaster Spalding (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Wings and the Child: or, The Building of Magic Cities (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by E. Nesbit, illust. by George Barraud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.