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Based On The Experience Of The Basic Educational Philosophy Of John Dewey's Thesis Research

Posted on:2010-04-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J TaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360275958728Subject:Principles of Education
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Dewey called his own philosophy as the experiential naturalism, emphasized the relations between the experience and the nature, and banded together the experience and nature, man and nature. Moreover, based on the experience, disclosed the essence of the thinking and the knowledge. The experience of naturalism is a positive and initiative empirism, it's purpose is to via the study of the relationship between the natural and the experience, and then find the guidance of the principle of people's lives.Dewey attaches great importance to the experience in education, it can be said that the experience is at the core of the John Dewey's educational philosophy. Dewey's educational philosophy is built on the foundation of such dynamic empiricism, and education is the process of constantly looking for experience and the natural, constantly absorbing the new experience new things to work for us."Experience"as the cornerstone of the John Dewey's philosophy of education, not only through the education philosophy of John Dewey's theory has always been, and furthermore reformed the traditional concept of the experience and give it new meaning. Dewey eliminate the opposition between the experience and the rationality of the traditional philosophy, broaden the extension of the experience, emphasized the human experience in the subjective initiative, creatively put forward the principle of experience, continuity and interactive, and we are familiar with the Dewey's Education The main theoretical proposition–"that is, the growth of education","Education is life"and"that is, education reform and the restructuring of the experience"runs through experience.Dewey's exposition of the experience, not only is a new turning point of the history of philosophy but also is an important milestone in the grounds of the history of philosophy in education. Though Dewey had transformed and transcended the traditional concept of the experience and formed its own set of empirical theory, as a subjective idealism of experience there are always exist some problems on the Dewey"Experience", which has always been on the existence of a subjective idealism. And the application of the Dewey's experience in the education, that is, the form of the theory of the based on the experience of the education philosophy, put forward by shortcomings of the United States at the time of the implementation of the"traditional education", which is represent the ideas and spirits of the United States in the early 20th century by rural to industrialization, and to the world stage.Despite the various self-contradictory and inconsistent with the laws of education in the Dewey's philosophy of education, we must clearly recognized that we can not deny the positive facts of the Dewey's educational thinking, especially in such a Background of the new basic education curriculum revolution, the study which are based on the experience of John Dewey's educational philosophy, coordinating the experience to locate and study all-round education, there is no doubt reflect on the meaning of reality.
Keywords/Search Tags:Dewey, experience, philosophy of education, education is life, education is growth, education is the reconstruction of the experience
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