Scapegoat: John Dewey and the character education crisis

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...

Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics.

Learning by Undoing, Democracy and Education, and John Dewey, the Colonial Traveler

The centennial anniversary of John Dewey’s Democracy and Education has been celebrated this year in a reconstructive and utility-based spirit. The article considers this spirit and the need to complement it with a critical-deconstructive and ‘use-less’ prism that will reveal shortcomings in Dewey’s and our own political pedagogies. Gleanings from Dewey’s book allow us to begin with what most ed...

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?