This article provides an overview of the first-grade art and literacy curriculum Waldorf schools, world’s largest, non-religious independent educational network. The was created by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, a contemporary John Dewey Maria Montessori who shared their belief in advantages active learning. Yet Steiner unique among his contemporaries focus on artistic approach to Under t...

b o o k r e v i e w 52 Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t c o n t e n t s “Knowledge of truth is always more than theoretical and intellectual. It is the product of activity as well as its cause. Scholarly reflection therefore must grow out of real problems, and not be the mere invention of professional scholars.” John Dewey, University of vermont

One hundred and twenty years ago, the American philosopher and psychologist John Dewey (Fig. 1) published his seminal paper The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology in the Psychological Review (Dewey, 1896). In this paper, Dewey challenged the reflex arc, a by-then (and since then, as we will soon demonstrate) consensual unifying framework for action and perception. The framework, advanced by Europ...

A educação democrática surge mediante os direcionamentos da sociedade ou ela é instrumento impulsionador de mudanças a partir suas práticas? Buscamos responder este questionamento através uma análise bibliográfica articulando as teorias filosóficas John Dewey com do patrono educação, Paulo Freire. Ambos percebiam escola enquanto espaço organização social, vislumbrando articulação entre e políti...

El propósito del presente trabajo es ofrecer una contextualización de “Las implicancias pragmatismo para la educación” (MW 4, pp. 178–191), que traducimos en este número revista. artículo está compuesto tres partes John Dewey (1859–1952) escribe diciembre 1908, febrero y marzo 1909. Nuestra hipótesis interpretativa texto fundamental dos sentidos: primer lugar, entender los lazos con tradición p...

This chapter presents a theoretical model of online learning, the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, which is grounded in John Dewey‟s progressive understanding of education. The CoI framework is a process model of online learning which views the online educational experience as arising from the interaction of three presences – social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence. Each...

Melvin L. Rogers Abstract1 John Dewey’s underappreciated 1888 essay, “The Ethics of Democracy,” attempts to answer the following question: How do I consider myself a member of “the people” that rule in a democracy, and yet belong to the political minority? In challenging the prevailing view of this essay, I argue that Dewey defends a fundamental indeterminacy in the idea of “the people” that im...