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John Dewey

Experience and Education

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

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Collateral Learning

Dewey points out that much of what students learn in school settings is not related to taught subject matter. Students develop habits and attitudes toward learning that educators should monitor as carefully as subject knowledge.

Continuity

Dewey’s philosophy of education based on experience proceeds from two main principles. The principle of continuity acknowledges that all life experiences relate to one another in a nested fashion, with older experiences shaping how a person encounters and interprets new experiences.

Experience

The core message of this book is that people learn through experience, and experience is therefore the proper basis for a philosophy of education. By experience, Dewey means the lived experiences of individual students.

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