Neste texto, abordam-se aspectos das correntes epistemológicas racionalista e empirista, bem como relações (existentes e/ou engendráveis) entre elas, as quais culminaram culminam com a concepção filosófica interacionista. Indicam-se aproximações distanciamentos o racionalismo empirismo, tomando-se referencial, para tanto, princípios complexos morinianos. Almeja-se sublinhar elementos da visão i...

John Dewey believed every person is capable of being an artist, living an artful life of social interaction that benefits and thereby beautifies the world. In Art as Experience, Dewey reminds his readers that the second Council of Nicea censored the church’s use of statutes and incense that distracted from prayer. Dewey, in an interesting turnabout, removes dogma from the church, but lauds the ...

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...

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

Thinking, particularly reflective thinking or inquiry, is essential to both teachers’ and students’ learning. In the past 10 to 15 years numerous commissions, boards, and foundations as well as states and local school districts have identified reflection0 inquiry as a standard toward which all teachers and students must strive. However, although the cry for accomplishment in systematic, reflect...