Dewey & Addams

Dewey & Addams

1. Dewey: Learning through experience

   • DEWEY
     • 1859 - 1952
     • United States of America
     • The Child and the Curriculum
   • EDUCATION
     • Progressive social reform
       • Social intelligence
       • Social progress
       • School is intimately connected to society
     • Learners
       • Children are socially active human beings
       • Explore and gain control over their environment
       • Confront personal and social problems
       • Participate in group life
       • Make and do
     • Learning
       • Problematic encounters stimulate the use of intellingence
       • Pragmatism: Scientific Method
       • Dewey's teaching method
         • Encounter of a problem
         • Using previous experiences, locate and define the problem
         • Information acquisition (reading, researching, discussing, etc.)
         • Construction of possible, tentative solutions
         • Choosing and testing the solution
       • Knowledge is an instrument
       • Environment and knowledge are changeable

2. Addams: Socialized education

   • ADDAMS
     • 1860 - 1935
     • United States of America
     • Hull House, Chicago (1889)
   • EDUCATION
     • Learning
       • Undestands trends and how to deal with them
       • Inclusive and culturally diverse
       • Agency with the mission of restoring the sense of community
       • Provides broader experiences
       • Free of gender bias
     • Socialized Education
       • Multicultural, internatinal, gender equality
       • Improve living and working condition for immigants
       • Progressive and Pragmatic
     • Learner
       • Takes on new and broad social purposes
       • Teaches as much as they learn