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John Dewey (1859-1952) Experiential Education

John Dewey (1859-1952) Experiential Education. “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”  ―  John Dewey. What do you believe Experiential Education is??. Background:. Born in Burlington, Vermont

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John Dewey (1859-1952) Experiential Education

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  1. John Dewey (1859-1952) Experiential Education “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” ― John Dewey What do you believe Experiential Education is??

  2. Background: • Born in Burlington, Vermont • Attended local schools • University of Vermont • Doctorate from John’s Hopkins University

  3. Accomplishments: Dewey’s educational theories broke new ground and continue to wield influence at the dawn of the twenty-first century. As an alternative to the drill-and-recitation methods of the nineteenth century, Dewey’s School and Society (1899) espoused the notion that ideas should be grounded in experience. In Experience and Education (1938), he argued that education should be based on the child’s psychological and physical development, as well as the world outside the schoolroom.

  4. CONTAINER PICTURE OF DEWEY

  5. Theory of Experience: We must understand the nature of how humans have the experiences they do, in order to design effective education. Dewey's theory of experience rested on two central tenets – continuity and interaction.

  6. Continuity: refers to the notion that humans are sensitive to (or are affected by) experience.  In humans, education is critical for providing people with the skills to live in society.  Dewey argued that we learn something from every experience, whether positive or negative. Thus, every experience in some way influences all potential future experiences for an individual.  Continuity refers to this idea that each experience is stored and carried on into the future, whether one likes it or not.

  7. Interaction: builds upon the notion of continuity and explains how  past experience interacts with the present situation, to create one's present experience.  Educators can't control students' past experiences, they can try to understand those past experiences so that better educational situations can be presented to the students.  Ultimately, all a teacher has control over is the design of the present situation.  The teacher with good insight into the effects of past experiences which students bring with them better enables the teacher to provide quality education which is relevant and meaningful for the students.

  8. Experiential Learning Theory

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  10. CONTAINER CONTINUITY INTERACTION

  11. John Dewey “There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education.” –John Dewey Using what you know now, use three words to describe Expreiential Education

  12. Bibliography: PICTURES: Clipart http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/innovators/dewey.html INFORMATION: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/42738.John_Dewey http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4967 http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/innovators/dewey.html http://wilderdom.com/experiential/ExperientialDewey.html

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