The Dewey School, USA

Autor: Kristen Nawrotzki, Helen May, Larry Prochner, Yordanka Valkanova, Alessandra Arce Hai
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Reimagining Teaching in Early 20th Century Experimental Schools ISBN: 9783030509637
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50964-4_2
Popis: The Dewey School, which operated at the University of Chicago from 1895 to 1904, is well known over a century later for being a laboratory for John Dewey’s curriculum ideas. Less attention has been paid to its role as a “pedagogical laboratory” for ideas of teaching and learning, which is the focus of this chapter. The chapter is organised into three parts. The first describes the experimental school as it was imagined, along with a review of Dewey’s approach to experimental educational research and his ideas on teaching and the child. The second part tells the school’s story as revealed through Dewey’s blueprint for it and the experiences of its first principal, Clara Isabel Mitchell, and the corps of teachers who subsequently developed the school as an educational laboratory. The final section describes some of the ways the Deweyan teacher and child were reimagined after the experiment ended.
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