Ruminating: why am I so often declared to be a proponent of pragmatism these days? Is there a way to escape such a reductive interpretation of my writing? Then I sit back and think, why complain about a label when people are always constructing their own meaning for the word pragmatism itself? I can only look back upon the history of the word pragmatism and how it has been used now to understand what and how it has come to be that it is still used to designate a collection of practices. These practices then implicate others in specific ways of relating to the word, the practices, to each other, in ways NONE of us would ever have imagined! Oh my, I am lost for "words"!
Showing posts with label Dewey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dewey. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
How children learn (Experience and Education)
In an experience, interaction occurs between an individual, objects, and other people. The experience becomes what it is because of this transaction between an individual and what constitutes his or her environment. The environment consists of whatever conditions (objects or people) interact with an individual’s internal personal needs, desires, capacities, and purposes that create the resulting experience (Dewey, 1938, pp. 43-44).
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
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