如何理解杜威教育哲学中“民主与教育的关系问题”

How to Understand the Relationship between Democracy and Education in Dewey^s Philosophy of Education

Today，the critical step to understand Dewey better is to understand the relationship be- tween democracy and education in Dewey ?s philosophy of education. This study investigated the realistic basis，the origin of thoughts and the internal logic of Dewey?s educational philosophy and found that tirst， the relationship of democracy and education is the fundamental issue in Dewey’s educational philosophy. Second，to grasp the essence and connotation of this issue，on the one hand，tt is important to understand the connotation of democracy in Dewey?s philosophy of education， including democracy as social life style， democracy as experimental plan and democracy with intellect and moral feelings as basic details； and on the other hand，tt is important to understand the double internal logic of the relationship of democracy and ed- ucation in Dewey?s educational philosophy. The first logic refers to democracy as the principle of education and education democratization； and the second logic refers to education as tools to maintain and improve the social democracy and democratic education.