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Mar 22, 2019 · With tools provided by John Dewey, an early advocate of contextual and practical knowledge, we analyse the common research framework for discussing mathematical knowledge in terms of the procedural and the conceptual.
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- Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology
- Characteristics of Dewey’s Theory of Education
- Empirical Validity and Criticism
- Dewey vs. Darwin: Theory of Emotions
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John Dewey was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic, and political activist. He made contributions to numerous fields and topics in philosophy and psychology. Besides being a primary originator of both functionalism and behaviorism psychology, Dewey was a major inspiration for several movements that shaped 20th-century tho...
Pragmatism
Dewey is one of the central figures and founders of pragmatism in America, despite not himself identifying as a pragmatist. Pragmatism teaches that things which are useful — meaning that they work in a practical situation — are true, and what does not work is false (Hildebrand, 2018). This rejected the threads of epistemology and metaphysics that ran through modern philosophy in favor of a naturalistic approach that viewed knowledge as an active adaptation of humans to their environment (Hild...
Functionalism
Dewey developed a theory of functionalism inspired by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, as well as the ideas of William Jamesand Dewey’s own instrumental philosophy. Scholars widely consider Dewey’s 1896 paper, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, to be the first major work in the functionalist school. In this work, Dewey attacked the methods of psychologists such as Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener, who used stimulus-response analysis as the basis of psychological theories. Psychologi...
Educational Philosophy
John Dewey was a notable educational reformer and established the path for decades of subsequent research in the field of educational psychology. Influenced by his philosophical and psychological theories, Dewey’s concept of instrumentalism in education stressed learning by doing, which was opposed to authoritarian teaching methods and rote learning. These ideas have remained central to educational philosophy in the United States. At the University of Chicago, Dewey founded an experimental sc...
Dewey believed that people learn and grow as a result of their experiences and interactions with the world. These compel people to continually develop new concepts, ideas, practices, and understandings. These, in turn, are refined through and continue to mediate the learner’s life experiences and social interactions. Dewey believed that (Hargraves,...
Despite its wide application in modern theories of education, many scholars have noted the lack of empirical evidence in favor of Dewey’s theories of education directly. Nonetheless, Dewey’s theory of how students learn aligns with empirical studies that examine the positive impact of interactions with peers and adults on learning (Göncü & Rogoff, ...
Another influential piece of philosophy that Dewey created was his theory of emotion (Cunningham, 1995). Dewey reconstructed Darwin’s theory of emotions, which he believed was flawed for assuming that the expression of emotion is separate from and and subsequent to the emotion itself. Darwin also argued that behavior that expresses emotion serves t...
Backe, A. (2001). John Dewey and early Chicago functionalism. History of Psychology, 4(4), 323. Cunningham, S. (1995). Dewey on emotions: recent experimental evidence. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 31(4), 865-874. Dewey, J. (1974). John Dewey on education: Selected writings. Göncü, A., & Rogoff, B. (1998). Children’s categorization...
Jan 28, 2020 · Early 20th-century theorist John Dewey believed in linking school to real-life experiences. Learn more about how to apply Dewey’s ideas to your practice.
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Jan 18, 2021 · John Dewey is credited as founding a philosophical approach to life called ‘pragmatism’, and his approaches to education and learning have been influential internationally and endured over time. He saw the purpose of education to be the cultivation of thoughtful, critically reflective, socially engaged individuals rather than passive ...
Mar 22, 2019 · With tools provided by John Dewey, an early advocate of contextual and practical knowledge, we analyse the common research framework for discussing mathematical knowledge in terms of the...
We begin with Dewey’s conception of democracy and then argue that current ways of thinking about mathematics do not provide adequate foundations for democratic mathematics education. Our reconceptualization of mathematics draws on Dewey’s uniquely humanistic philosophy of mathematics.
Dewey (1938) described progressive education as “a product of discontent with traditional education” which imposes adult standards, subject matter, and methodologies (no page number). He believed that traditional education as just described, was beyond the scope of young learners.
