• 95 | John Dewey and the Education of Experience

  • Aug 14 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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95 | John Dewey and the Education of Experience

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  • In this episode, we discuss the educational philosophy of the American pragmatist John Dewey. Focusing on his 1938 treatise Experience & Education we explore questions concerning the ends of education, what it means to be an effective educator, and the relationship between experience and history. Dewey advocates for a form of education that focuses less on knowledge accumulation and more on cultivating the capacities of students for freedom through the enrichment of their experience. Other topics include Dewey’s controversial naturalism, the tension between Deweyan pragmatism and Marxist social theory, and finally why the traditional lecture still has a lot to recommend it!

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    References:

    John Dewey, Experience & Education (New York: Free Press, 2015)

    John Dewey, Art as Experience (New York: Penguin Books, 2005)

    Music:

    “Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

    “My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN
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