John Dewey Essays

Progressive education promotes the idea that learners should be come independent thinkers but also creative individuals who can also express their feelings. It is not only about putting accumulating knowledge but it also about learners knowing how to think for themselves and not only rely on rote learning. Continuity and interaction are embedded in the […]

The growth of private Christian education, encompassing Christian day schools and homeschooling, has been extraordinary in the last thirty years. This endeavor has yielded notable outcomes, as indicated by standardized test scores consistently revealing that students in private Christian education outperform their counterparts in public schools. Reports indicate that all homeschool students who applied to […]

Having no background on what the article “The Six Hour D… and How to Avoid It” by Professor Dewey is about leaves your mind guessing until you get around to reading it. This article is about study habits amongst college students. It discusses how many students claim to have spent a substantial amount of time […]

For John Dewey, education and democracy are intimately connected. According to Dewey good education should have both a societal purpose and purpose for the individual student. For Dewey, the long-term matters, but so does the short-term quality of an educational experience. Dewey criticizes traditional education for lacking in holistic understanding of students and designing curricula […]

The Ethics of Democracy was a short article written by John Dewey. He wrote was an extraordinary thinker and provided us today with ideas that are still in action. I decided to write on this article specifically because I am very interested in the founding of the United States and how our founding fathers chose […]

Would Dewey’s advice for correcting a bad habit work for you? How would you go about reforming one of your habits? According to John Dewey, Habits are inevitable. We are empowered by both good and bad habits. In his essay, “Habits and Will”, Dewey states that we envision bad habits as such acts of “foolish […]

Albert Bandura is a philosopher who came up with the Social Learning theory which states that people learn from each other in a social context through observation, modeling and imitation. Bandura’s theory is considered to be a bridge between the cognitive learning and behaviorist’s theory. The central values of Bandura’s theory are based on the […]