JOHN DEWEY PRESENTATION_FINAL

Discussant

Yolanda Nadayao

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

JOHN DEWEY'S CURRICULUM THEORY

(October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952)

John DEWEY

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer; a profound believer in Democracy, a well-known public intellectual, a major voice of progressive education and liberalism and one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism.

JOHN DEWEY'S THEORY

• His philosophies and views were placed in the educational philosophy of Pragmatism

• Progressive education is a vision of education that emphasizes the necessity of “learning by doing” or learning by intelligence”

• His role in Progressive education gained him fame

• His collection of views, philosophies and radically different ideas on education

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

Intellectual exchanges would be free flowing

Experience can take place in a free and open democratic society

The concept of change became a key tenant of his philosophy

Pragmatist- values education as a product of a learner’s effort and experience to reorganize knowledge for content mastery while interacting within a learning goal

Against passive learning which he believed was the culmination of antique Curriculum, rote memorization and spectator learning

Create relevant quality education in a child-centered learning environment

• The experience of students and teachers learning together, yields extra value for both.

• His view of the ideal classroom had many similarities with democratic ideals.

• Students must experience reality as it is.

LEARNING BY DOING

• He believed in an interdisciplinary curriculum which focused on connecting multiple subjects where the students would go freely in and out of classrooms and construct their own paths for acquiring knowledge

• He advocated education through and was not an advocate of the formal ways of learning

DEWEY'S THOUGHT ON EDUCATION

THEORIES TO PRACTICE

• Restructured traditional education
• Human interaction, experience, collaboration
• Democratic society
• Needs of the child
• Hands-on or project-based learning
• Balance teacher-student directed learning
• Role of educator- promote learning
• Interconnectedness of school and community

• The teacher would be a facilitator, observing the students’ interest and would help develop their problem-solving skills
• The teacher would give some background information and then students would work in groups to explore concepts within the content
• There would be projects , presentations, tests and evaluation
• There would be a lot of conversation and collaboration

• Allowing the child to choose what he wanted to study overlooked the fact that the child may be immature
• According to him, the child should move from immature experience to an experience based on skills and intelligence
• Children by nature explore and are curious.

Teacher’s Role

Student’s Role

VS

• Dewey’s idea was to integrate the school with society

• He wanted this to happen by a process where learning happens with the actual problems of life

• His basic argument was that education should be available to every single child in society
• In the first phase., schools should be freely open and made accessible to all from kindergarten to college. In the second, in the democratic educational system, children would themselves carry on the educational process, aided and guided by the teacher. In the third phase, children would be trained to cooperate by sharing with and caring for one another

Dewey on the School and Society

Dewey established the University Elementary School in 1896 to test his theory and attempt to begin the reform of public education

Dewey wanted to “psychologize” the curriculum by constructing an environment in which the activities of child would include problematic situations

Revolutionize educational system

Focused on children and activities rather than on books and recitations

Hired teachers devoted to research, experiment and educational innovation

Laboratory

Don't hesitate to ask any questions.

ThankYou!