Experience and Education by John Dewey
We are delighted to welcome Professor Derron Boyles to open our discussion of Experience and Education by John Dewey. Deron Boyles is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His research interests include school commercialism, epistemology, and American pragmatism.
Prof Boyles has kindly provided the following questions to open our discussion:
Dewey is addressing two audiences in the book—which ones and why?
Dewey’s idea that “means and ends” are conjoint often confuses readers. Why does this confusion exist? Why is it so important to Dewey that means and ends be understood together and not separate?
Even educators who express their interest or desire to “be Deweyan” in their teaching often run into problems. Dewey gives a clue at the top of p. 19 when he talks about “devices of art.” What does he mean?
