John Dewey’s conception of education: Finding common ground with R. S. Peters and Paulo Freire
@article{Beckett2018JohnDC, title={John Dewey’s conception of education: Finding common ground with R. S. Peters and Paulo Freire}, author={Kelvin S. Beckett}, journal={Educational Philosophy and Theory}, year={2018}, volume={50}, pages={380 - 389} }
Abstract John Dewey adopted a child-centered point of view to illuminate aspects of education he believed teacher-centered educators were neglecting, but he did so self-consciously and self-critically, because he also believed that ‘a new order of conceptions leading to new modes of practice’ was needed. Dewey introduced his new conceptions in The Child and the Curriculum and later and more fully in Democracy and Education. Teachers at his Laboratory School in Chicago developed the new modes of…
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