2. John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Dewey
William Heard Kilpatrick
3. According to John Dewey:
The curriculum in the schools should reflect that of
society.
The center of the school curriculum should reflect
the development of humans in society.
The study of the core subjects
(language, science, history) should be coupled with
the study of cooking, sewing and manual training.
“progress is not in the succession of studies but in
the development of new attitudes towards, and new
interests in, experience”
4. Teach Practical subjects along with the core
subjects.
Ex) In Science class have them build a bridge to test
stability.
Book smarts and Street smarts.
Students need both to be well rounded individuals.
5. Can Learn how to do the everyday “practical”
things they need to know as adults.
Good examples of current practical classes are:
Shop – (cars)
Cooking
Drivers Ed.
Computer Science
Etc
6. Progressive Education:
In my opinion, this theory is already used much in
our education today, but could be applied more to
our core classes.
As a history teacher in the future I could:
Ex) Go over types of foods in a culture you are
studying and ask them to cook and bring in something
from their culture.
Ex) Cultures create their own unique patterns in
clothing, students could draw their own patterns to
represent themselves.
7. Images:
John Dewey on Slide 2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey
Clip Art found on slides 4 & 5 are from this program.
