Question

1.In what ways does Dewey think that our institutions are not adapted to contemporary circumstances? 2.What are the three methods of Dewey considers to produce change in institutions? Which does he think is best and why? List three reasons why Dewey disagrees with Marx’s claim that change can only be brought about through violent revolution. (Dewey himself lists many reasons, but you only need to state three.)

Answer 1

Dewey believed that human beings through a hands-on approach. From Dewey's educational point of view this means that students must interact with theirs environment in order to adapt and learn.

Dewey's pragmatic and democratic approach to schooling May not stand out as radical today, but in the early his view of education was contradiction to much of than present system of schooling.A child centered approach of education places the emphasis of learning on the needs and interest of the child.It believed in an interdisciplinary curriculum or a curriculum that focus on connecting multiple subjects, where students are allowed to freely move in and out of classrooms as they pursue their interests.The liberalism of the Dewey school occupied the center of the political stage after the bourgeois- democratic revolution had already been consummated.

Dewey what Marx affirms, namely that partisanship perform a veriety of positive functions in the movement towards a more morally adequate society and moral transformation of man.Against Marx Dewey argues that the revalry of partics must come under the control of the norms of critical inquiry which Dewey believed can also serve as the site of a more comprehensive and nonpartisan social interest.