To understand Dewey’s philosophy of education, I think you need to examine four key things: 1. the purpose of schools, 2. the role of teachers, 3. the curriculum, and 4. educative experiences (I explored this concept in my post: Experiential Learning). To get started, we first must clarify the purpose of schools, because it is in our schools that we find teachers, curricula, and hopefully educative experiences. Continue reading
The type of education that Dewey envisioned, and that I too would like to see in classrooms around the world is an education based on experience. You might find it interesting that Dewey’s philosophy is largely inline with how the brain functions and well supported by scientific evidence. However, before we get down to the science, or in this case the neurophilosophy, it’s important to recognize a few key terms: situation, objective conditions, and internal conditions. Continue reading
Hands down my favorite educational philosopher of all time is John Dewey. He had his critics, and maybe some of his thoughts were a little out there and debatable, but when it comes down it, I think this guy had the purpose of education and learning down to a T, or to be more precise, an E. Continue reading
