John Dewey Modern Father of Education

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General overview of Dewey`s philosophy of education

John Dewey (1859-1952 , the Father of Modern Education and Experiential Education Movement believed that 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 . For him the school must be made into social center capable of participating in the daily life of the community . and make up in part to the child

for the decay of dogmatic and fixed methods of social discipline and for the loss of reverence and the influence of authority (Warde , 2005

Garrison (1999 ) quoted from Democracy and Education where John Dewey 's wrote his philosophy of education . If we are willing to conceive education as the process of forming fundamental disposition intellectual and emotional , toward nature and fellow-men , philosophy may even be defined as the general theory of education . Unless a philosophy is to remain symbolic - or verbal-or a sentimental indulgence for a few or else mere arbitrary dogma , its auditing of past experience and its program of values must take effect in conduct ' He said that Dewey 's philosophy in education was extraordinarily comprehensive

Dewey`s Aims of Education

His primary aim is to see that school is integrated with the society and that children learn the actual problems that they will encounter in life . He wants to see that the application of the principles and practices of democracy to be applied in the schools . Schools should be open to all on a free and equal basis regardless race , gender or social status

First , the schools would be freely available to all from kindergarten to college . Second , the children would themselves carry on the educational process , aided and guided by the teacher . Third , they would be trained to behave cooperatively , sharing with and caring for one another . Then these creative , well-adjusted equalitarian would make over American society in their own image (Warde , 2005

3 . Dewey`s methodology of education

Dewey believed that students should be involved in real-life task and challenges . He said that math could be learn through proportions in cooking or figuring out how long it would take to get from one place to another by using a mule . History can be learn by experiencing how people lived , geography , what climate was like and how plants and animals grew were important subject (as cited in Neill , 2005

a . The teacher who is an intelligent student both of individual mental operations and of the effects of school conditions upon those operations , can largely be trusted to develop for himself methods of instruction in their narrower and more technical sense (in Stengeluthor , 1998

Dewey 's guidelines for method in teaching

situate instruction in action , avoiding student passivity

focus on students ' forming images , avoiding the presentation of lessons and ideas already fully formed

attend to interests as signs of the power to learn

acknowledge emotion as...