The Pedagogical Work of Emile Durkheim

I. Durkheim's approach to education was from the standpoint of sociology, as indicated by his motto, "Education is the socialization of the younger generation." II. He treated the science of education as investigation of what is in actual social procedure; to be distinguished from "the science of education" is, on the one hand, pedagogy, viz., "the work of thought, seeking in the results of psychology and sociology principles for the direction or the reform of education," and, on the other hand, the educative activity itself. III. General plan of Durkheim's course "l'Education Morale a l'Ecole Primaire." IV. Durkheim's distinction between moral education and the teaching of morals. V. Durkheim's scheme of intellectual education in the primary school.VI. Durkheim's attitude toward the problems in the French situation centered in the historical fact of education (a) for the masses, (b) for the elite. VII. Durkheim assigns a central place in pedagogical instruction to critical history of the doctrines of education

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