FALL 2015 EDTL 2010: Introduction to Education VROOMAN
Course: 1004
Name: MacKenzie Bartelt
1) ARTICLE CITATION
Dewey, J. (1910). My pedagogic creed (Vol. 54, pp. 77-80). Chicago: A. Flanagan Company.
2) ABSTRACT
John Dewey has a lot to say about education as a whole. From the curriculum to the school itself, and even the social aspect of the experience. To Dewey, education is not just in the schools. He believes that it starts at birth, and that everything after is a learning experience for the individual. Not only is the individual learning at this point they are also teaching, whether they know it or not, and sharing the intellect that they have learned. He believes that individuals can only
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The educator must be able to connect with their students and each of their instincts’ to successfully teach the child. Without this insight, the education process would essentially be useless. The child has their own instincts and tendencies, but an individual could not possibly know what these mean until they can translate them into their social equivalents. In order to do this an individual must be able to carry them back into a social past and see them as they learn each of these instincts and how it connects to their life, and they must be able to predict the child’s future outcome. With the ever changing technological advances, it is extremely difficult to foretell what will be necessary in the future for each child. Hence it is impossible to prepare the child for any precise set of conditions. To prepare a child for the future is to give them command of themselves, to train them so that they will ready to use their abilities. He believes that the two sides, psychological and sociological, are organically related and that education cannot be directed towards only one. Both are necessary. Overall on education, He believes that the individual who is to be educated is a social individual and that society is an organic union of individuals. He believe that the school is primarily a social institution, and that the school is simply a form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most
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Growing up in school, when “Dewey” was mentioned, one more than likely thought of the Dewey decimal system, which was used in libraries. However, that system was created by Melvil Dewey, and while he was an important person, there was another Dewey that impacted education in extraordinary ways. That man is known as John Dewey. John Dewey shaped the education system that we have today by reconstructing the progressive education. Dewey was a philosopher, and educational theorist who used experimentalism, as well as many other theories to change the way the American Education system was done. He lived during the time period where traditional and progressive education were coming together, so he used both to create his own personal philosophies. Once of his major philosophies was relating learning to society. Additionally, he used dualism as an approach to his philosophies that changed the education system. He impacted today’s education system in many ways, with his different ideas still being seen in school’s today. Incorporating multiple subjects into school’s, as well as taking a hand’s on learning approach are two theories that while many other philosophers believed in as well, Dewey used to develop the education system. John Dewey was a model citizen, that benefited society and the American education system in a variety of ways.
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. According to John Dewey education plays a large role in the development of an individual and it is an element that separates humans from other animals. It is important to try to comprehend what Dewey means by this and in order to do so the following must be done. First, one must understand the role education plays in an individual and Dewey’s notions of education in the areas of growth, direction and social function. Second, after comprehending Dewey’s notions of education in the areas of growth, direction, and social function, one must be able to grasp the distinction between education as a social function and the simple notion of training and what sets these two apart. Third, after being able to comprehend the notions of education and the distinction between education as a social function and training, the idea of why education is distinctive of human life will be further developed.
Dewey thought that people learn the best through experiences. He believed that learning was active and schooling unnecessarily long and restrictive. His idea was that children came to school to do things and live in a community which gave them real, guided experiences which fostered their capacity to contribute to society (Neill, 2005). “Instrumentalism” is a theory of knowledge created by Dewey in which ideas are seen to exist primarily as instruments for the solution of problems encountered in the environment. He thought knowledge could be falsified which needed to be consistently challenged and experimented on. He emphasized on inquiry-based education (Bhuiyan, 2015).”
He was in favour of established a civilized society through education. It can be stated that the development of body, mind and soul can be extended upto whole life time with providing the opportunity to learning at any stage of life without any barriers. This is the main motto of distance education. Besides we may refer the definition of John Dewey that education is a lifelong process, which is properly supported and advocated by distance learning. So, the interest to learn at any time, any age, any place, and any medium distance education may fulfill the apex goal of education. Besides having many opportunities to develop our academic capacity in term of distance learning, the percentage of enrolment in higher education is least. It can be easily understood from the following Table