A Comparison of the Educational Ideas and Practices of John Dewey and Mao Zedong in China: Is School Society or Society School? Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgment
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Historical Context	5
Pt. 1	The First Republic, 1912-1927	7
	The First Reform	8
	Back-to-Ancient	9
	New Cultural Movement and May Fourth	10
Pt. 2	Education under the GMD, 1927-1949	15
Pt. 3	Education in the Communist Areas, 1927-1949	18
	The Civil War, 1927-1935	19
	The Anti-Japanese War and Afterwards, 1936-1949	22
Pt. 4	Education Under the PRC, 1949-1981	28
	The First Seventeen Years, 1949-1966	28
	Cultural Revolution, 1966-1977	33
	Post-Cultural Revolution, 1977-1981	34
	Conclusion	36
Ch. 2	Dewey's Theory and Its Implementations in China	41
Pt. 1	Dewey's Educational Theory	42
	School and Society	42
	Moral Education	45
	Experience	47
Pt. 2	The Response to Dewey's Educational Theory	49
Pt. 3	The Implementation of Dewey's theory	52
	Implementation - Policy Making	54
	Implementation - the Organizational Efforts	56
	Implementation - Experiments in Individual Schools	58
	Conclusion	62
Ch. 3	Mao's Educational Theory and Its Implementations	65
Pt. 1	Mao's Connection with Chinese Education	65
Pt. 2	Mao's Theory of Education	69
	School and Society	69
	Moral Education	71
	Experience	73
Pt. 3	The Implementation of Mao's Theory	75
	Kangda	75
	Gongda	78
	Beida	81
	Conclusion	93
Ch. 4	A Comparison of the Theories and Practices	95
Pt. 1	Dewey and Mao - Theory	97
Pt. 2	Dewey and Mao - Practice	103
Pt. 3	Dewey and Mao - Contexts	108
	Conclusion	110
Ch. 5	Lessons and Insights from Dewey and Mao	113
Pt. 1	Looking Beneath Dewey's and Mao's Differences	113
	Is School Society Or Society School	113
	The Role of Intellectuals	121
	Morality - Does It Have Class Character	126
Pt. 2	Looking beyond Dewey and Mao's Similarities	130
	Top-Down Leadership vs. Other Alternatives	131
	Holistic Education vs. Special Training	132
	Educative Experience vs. Other Experience	133
	Concluding Remarks	135
	Bibliography	139