About this title: "Experience and Education" is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after "Democracy and Education" (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received.
Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Date Published: 1963-02-01
ISBN-13:9780020136606ISBN:0020136609
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. No creases in cover or spine. Has some highlighting and/or underlining. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Description: Good. By John Dewey; ISBN: 0684838281; Pub. : Free Press; Pub. Date: 1997-07-01; Media: Paperback; Weight: 2.08 oz.; NOTE: About 30 pages have highlighting, some of it a bit heavy on a few pages. Other than that, excellent physical condition. Covers have a tiny bit of edgewear. Surfaces of covers are glossy. Binding is good. Pages show indications of very light use. Highlighting and/or writing on at least 25 percent of pages. This book is still very readable. by John Dewey; ISBN: 0684838281; ... read more
Edition: Reprint. The Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Collier Books
Date Published: 1979
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very light rubbing otherwise a near fine copy. 91 p. Glued Paperback The great educational theorist's most concise statement of his ideas about the needs, the problems, and the possibilities of education-written after his experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories received. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Collier Books, New York
Date Published: 1976
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good. No Jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series................T-A NEW............. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Macmillan company, New York
Date Published: 1939
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Brown stains along both hinges inside covers, underlining in pencil throughout, minor scuff and wear to edges and corners of covers, last page and RFEP folded along lower corner, price notation in pencil... xii, p., 2 l., 116 p. 19 cm. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Company
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good. Minor shelf wear on dust jacket, great buy! Previous owner's name inside front cover. Copyright 1938, this is a 1950 reprint. read more
"Oh, John Dewey - I wanted you to just spit it out, and just say what you had to say, rather than saying what you were thinking about maybe theorizing about saying. Dewey has a very interesting (although slightly frightening) idea about using education to change society from the ground up, but because this is all about his theories, there's very little that's concrete to latch onto. Interesting, but not overly so."
"This is my favorite of all Dewey's books. He wrote it in an attempt to correct many misinterpretations of his work and writing. The "bad" progressive practices being done in his name are part of the legacy I feel like I still fight against as an educator. It's not an easy text (although compared to some of his others it is) but it is very clear and very good."
"This is a fabulous nutshell of a book that captures the essential of John Dewey's pragmatist take on education. Even though it was written in the 1930s, it offers so much for those of us involved in public education today. Arne Duncan and Barak Obama should read this right away!"
"In this short book, John Dewey presents his theory of education, a theory based on the belief that "all genuine education comes about through experience." In doing this, he argues that we should move away from the traditional model, one that views education more as a formation of an individual from external sources, and proceed towards one where the individual is developed from within his or herself.
To support his view on education, Dewey systematically puts forth a theory of experience, laying out criteria for what, at its essence, constitutes a positive and educative experience. This theory leans heavily on the principles of continuity and interaction, principles that educators must be sensitive to in order for them to provide the right atmosphere for pupils to attain maximal exposure to, and retention of, knowledge. Along with this critique, Dewey provides a guide to how educators can effectively manage their pupils and simultaneously provide them with real educative freedom. This guide is based on the idea that the educator is more akin to a leader, than a dictator, a person to be followed rather than a person to be feared.
In the final pages of his work, Dewey expounds on the notion of purpose in education and shows how, through real-world experience, we can create truly intelligent beings, that is, people who can freely formulate purposes and have the organizational skills and means to execute them. This idea leads to what I believe is the most attractive effect of Dewey's educational theory: it places the sources and methods of knowledge within the "real world" changing the transition out of the educational system into an authentically enabling experience. We are no longer keeping pupils in a secluded environment and therefore are truly preparing (read educating!) them for a lifetime of learning and bringing them closer to Dewey's ideal that "education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process."
Highly recommended. Just as relevant today as when it was originally published in 1939. Should be required reading material for any curriculum in education or anyone involved in the education of others...
"There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials." -- John Dewey"
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