ED POL 305 (02): Unpacking Dewey by

2025-09-22 21:19:20 UTC

Dewey's democratic ideal of education said that control in learning environments should come from the social situation itself where individuals are interacting, rather than from the educator.

Vision of education

2025-09-22 21:20:09 UTC

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life

2025-09-22 21:20:10 UTC

Dewey’s democracy is a way of living together and students learn by doing or taking responsibility for shared problems.

2025-09-22 21:23:14 UTC

“In a certain sense every experience should do something to prepare a person for later experiences of a deeper and more expansive quality. That is the very meaning of growth, continuity, and reconstruction of experience.” (Dewey, 1938, p. 47)

Vision of education

cyli5 — 2025-09-22 21:25:04 UTC

For Dewey, education is active and connected to real life. He didn’t think schools should just be places where students memorize facts for the sake of it. Instead, he wanted schools to create experiences that spark curiosity and give students the tools to keep learning beyond the classroom.

group 3

2025-09-22 21:25:40 UTC

dewey thought a democratic education was one where the educator facilitated the education rather than controlling it, part of this was his belief that it was the educators job to meet the needs of students. Dewey also believed in 'collateral' education which is the belief that students will take away attitudes from lessons as well as the intended knowledge of the lesson.

The quote we chose was "the most important attitude that can be formed is that of the desire to go on learning." Dewey thought that this is the most important attitude an educator can teach their students to prepare them for the future.

Dewey's Ideal of Education

2025-09-22 21:25:48 UTC

"Without such formal education, it is not possible to transmit all the resources and achievements of a complex society. It also opens a way to a kind of experience which would not be accessible to the young, if they were left to pick up their training in informal association with others, since books and

the symbols of knowledge are mastered."

Role of the educator

cyli5 — 2025-09-22 21:26:01 UTC

Education should feel less like cramming information and more like learning how to learn, with the teacher guiding and supporting that process.

Group 1

2025-09-22 21:28:13 UTC

Social process

Role of educator is to arrange the subjective conditions and create environment that fits the students ability

Relay to next generation

Help this group so that society can become more integrated

How learn happen?

Experience but right experience
- Create growth
- Learn from interaction
- Not every experience something can learn and grow from

Business of education is to liberate

Purpose

Generally describe purpose of education

First part of first reading

Purpose communicate ideals hopes and standards
Fist reading ed and facilitate species

Purpose not only to transform knowledge but growth and maturity

Learn happen through communication

You can find communication between newer and older generations

Now we have former learning class

Students understanding of their knowledge

Communication aspect of reading from last week

Live in community bc have things in common and community bc we have those things in common

Writing time things change dramatically

Capitalism, immigration, etc
Society dividing
Talks about lack of unity
Classroom could be a model for larger system
Ideas sound simple or natural to you
- Community in class
- Tailoring lesson to students
- Radical at time
- old model lecture and listen
- More interaction, hands on learning