Jerome Seymour Bruner and John Dewey: connections of cognition and experience

Jerome Bruner and William James Regarding Pragmatism ’ s Does Pragmatism

As its most basic mission, pragmatism sets out to determine an idea’s merit by examining its practical consequences, rather than through purely abstract evaluation. As a result of this emphasis on an idea’s effectiveness, the complex ways in which pragmatists conceive of abstract notions such as truth and self-concept are often overlooked. Close examination of the works of two pragmatist thinke...

The Value of Experience in Education : John Dewey

The Value of Experience in Education: John Dewey Carlos Aedo, May 2002 Although Experience and Education is an analysis of "traditional" and "progressive" education, it is also a clear and concise statement of Dewey's basic criteria of experience. He uses continuity and interaction to describe the latitudinal and longitudinal aspects of experience (EE, 42). Continuity describes the aspects of e...

Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics.

John Dewey, the Math and Science Standards, and the Workplace

Are there lessons to be learned by today's educational reformers from the fa te of Dewey's pedagogicalprit» ciples over the past century?

The concept of experience by John Dewey revisited: conceiving, feeling and “enliving”

: The concept of experience by John Dewey revisited: conceiving, feeling and “enliving”. Dewey takes a few steps towards a differentiation of the concept of experience, such as the distinction between primary and secondary experience, or between ordinary (partial, raw, primitive) experience and complete, aesthetic experience. However, he does not provide a systematic elaboration of these distin...