Educational Psychology / Unit 1 EDP 0008 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dewey: Learning by Doing
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The idea
John Dewey led progressive education, treating school as preparation for citizenship and putting the student, rather than the subject, at the center.
In practice
Students learn by doing, through observation, problem solving and inquiry, as set out in How We Think.
Where people slip
Dewey's pragmatism, thought tested in action, is the philosophy beneath progressivism, which later entries set against essentialism.
Your place on the trail
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