Dewey and the Progressive/Pragmatic View

 
 
 
 
5th Class: Dewey and the Progressive/Pragmatic View

Architects of the intellect "design exquisite learning experiences for eager minds" (Fogarty 1999 76). This article, more or less in praise of John Dewey's attempt to move learning out of the classroom and into field experiences, pre-supposes that the "minds" of students are truly "eager". As in Fogarty's explanation of Piaget's work where "students manipulate subject matter and objects representing the subject matter as they interpret their findings" (Fogarty 1999 76), we are left with the presumption that the students mentioned in these programs are not the "average" student who, from personal experience, is eager to get out of school an


     
 
 
 
    

 

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