John Dewey on History in Elementary and Secondary Education

John Dewey on History Education and the Historical Method

Th is essay constructs a comprehensive view of Dewey’s approach to history, the historical method, and history education. Drawing on Dewey’s approach to the subject at the University of Chicago Laboratory School (1896-1904), Dewey’s chapter on the historical method in Logic: A Th eory of Inquiry (1938), and a critique of Dewey’s philosophy of history that appeared in the American Historical Rev...

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...

The Paradox of freedom : John dewey on human naTure , CulTure , and eduCaTion

In this paper, I argue that John Dewey's view of human nature entails that culture is a necessary but not sufficient condition for freedom. A surprising corollary of this argument is that, if left to run its natural course, culture in fact tends not to enable but rather to preclude freedom. Hence, there are specific cultural practices—habits acquired through education—that are required if we ar...

Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics.

Dewey, Eros and Education

We are attracted by our heart's desires. In love we passionately desire to possess the good, or at least what we perceive to be the good. But what we seek soon comes to possess us in thought, feeling, and action. It becomes who we are, the content of our character. In this paper I want to talk about education and Eros. I want to talk about Eros as a creative poetic force that makes new meanings...