![]() ![]() Traditional educators focus on controlling external conditions of learning and enforcing external forms of order, and are not concerned with internal (mental) learning factors. ![]() Students in this older model of school are passive and obedient. Traditional education conveys knowledge and skills determined in the past via textbooks and teacher-centered lectures. ![]() Traditional education proceeds in a top-down manner, with teachers clearly distinct from students in learning environments. This general warning delivered, Dewey contrasts the older traditional approach and the newer progressive approach to education. He notes the tendency to think in terms of absolute opposites and the unhelpful propensity to define theories by reversing the tenets of rival approaches. This study guide references the 2015 Free Press edition.ĭewey begins Experience and Education by cautioning against blind adherence to any movement. ![]() Dewey also recommends an approach to developing progressive curriculum. He discusses issues of social control and freedom, and how teachers can help students form clear learning purposes. Dewey highlights two core principles: (1) the continuity of experience and (2) interaction between internal (mental) and objective (external) conditions of learning. In this brief, theoretically dense philosophical treatise, Dewey argues in favor of education based on lived experiences of individual learners. ![]()
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