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A 3 page report on the book “Experience
and Education” by John Dewey. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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education while urging for change and even a sense of enlightenment. One of his many works is titled "Experience and Education." The following paper offers a brief report of the
work. Experience and Education In discussing Deweys work we first provide a general overview of the chapters. Chapter 1 is titled "Traditional vs. Progressive Education" and in this
chapter "Dewey polarizes traditional and progressive educations respective philosophies and argues that progressively education has to do more than simply react to the problems of traditional education; progressive education must
be rigorous in developing its methods" (Neill). For anyone familiar with all of the controversy and confusion surrounding education today this appears to be a very valid and necessary argument.
This leads us into the next chapter which illustrates the "Need of a Theory of Experience" wherein "Dewey offers a theory of education based on needing to understand the
nature of experience. He argues that we must understand how experience occurs in order to design and conduct education for the benefit of individuals in society both in the
present and the future" (Neill). This presents us with an intriguing, and often overlooked, aspect of education for most educational perspectives do not truly take into consideration the needs of
the future from a long term angle. More often than not the furthest an educational pursuit seems to aim at is perhaps 10 years, not the entire future of education
and its deep seeded relationship to experience. Chapter 3 is titled "Criteria of Experience" and in this chapter Dewey continues with his examination of the existence of experience in the
field of education. "Dewey argues that there are two abstract principles which explain the nature of experience: (i) continuity (that all experiences are carried forward and influence future experiences) and
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