Content John Dewey's Democracy of Education as applied in the Philippine Setting

1. Elementary School
SHIRLEY LANE
Presented by Chrissie Kyell M.
Trinidad

3. Direction: Unscramble the letters
to form word/s that are related to
John Dewey's thoughts of
education.

10. Contents
• What is the aim of Dewey's
Democracy of Education?
• What is the influence of John
Dewey's educational thought
on Philippine Education?

11. He was a
pragmatist,
progressivist,
educator,
philosopher, and
social reformer
(Gutek, 2014;
Williams, 2017).

12. • Education is a process of growth
The aim of education is more
education and the end of growth is
more growth.
• Education is life and life is education.
Life is a byproduct of activities and education
is born out of these activities

13. • Education leads towards Social
efficiency
Through education he is developing
reasoning in social relations, cultivating
social virtues and thus becoming socially
efficient

14. • Experience is base of philosophy
Education should create a capacity in
the child that he is able to face social
situations strongly and come out
successfully in the struggle, only that
education is successful which create
the will to develop continuously
education.

15. SHOULD SCHOOLS FOCUS
MORE ON DEVELOPING
STUDENTS' CRITICAL
THINKING SKILLS OR ON
PREPARING THEM FOR JOBS
THAT WILL RESULT IN
IMPROVED ECONOMIES
AND MANPOWER?

17. • Dewey’s idea about ‘small
democracies’, however, started to
manifest when the Third Philippine
Republic was established.
• Student governments and students
councils began to flourish not only
as student bodies in their respective
institutions but also as a national
union

18. The K-12 program aims at
‘decongesting and enhancing the
basic education curriculum for
learners to master basic
competencies, lengthening the cycle
of basic education to
cover kindergarten through year 12’
The K to 12 Basic Education
Program is a major
education reform
implemented in 2012 in the
Philippines

19. The following learning
approaches reflect John
Dewey’s pragmatist
and cognitive
constructivist ideas. They
are incorporated in the K
to 12 Program

20. As a whole, the Philippine K
to 12 science curriculum is
learner-centered and
inquiry-based, emphasizing
the use of evidence in
constructing explanations.
Inquiry-based learning is based on
John Dewey’s philosophy that
education begins with the curiosity
of the learner.

21. The spiral path of inquiry begins
with asking questions, leading to
investigation of solutions,
resulting to the creation of new
knowledge as information is
gathered, followed by discussion
of discoveries and experiences
and wrapped up by reflection on
the new found knowledge.

22. The K-12 curriculum follows
the spiral approach. Jerome
Bruner is the proponent of this
approach with principles
derived from John Dewey.

23. • From a cognitive constructivist’s point
of view, learners construct new ideas
based upon their previously learned
knowledge.
• Gradual mastery of the desired
competencies is achieved through
revisiting core ideas in several passes
and relating new knowledge or skills
with the previous

24. • Dewey also discusses the idea of
co-operative problem-solving.

25. • His belief that each student
must be addressed differently.
• Differentiation or Differentiated
Instruction (John Dewey and
Jean Piaget were both early
proponents)

26. • He emphasizes direct experience
as the basis of all methods.
• To him knowledge should arise from
concrete and meaningful situations.
• Dewey recommended projects to be
used as teaching techniques.
a. Project Method
b. Activity Method

27. DID THE CURRENT
CURRICULUM FAIL TO
ADDRESS THE NEEDS
OF THE STUDENTS?
WHY?

28. • Kaur, G. Educational thoughts of John Dewey.
International Journal of 3600 Management
Review. Vol. 7, pp. 42-44
• Papong, E. (2014). The Influence of John
Dewey's Educational Thought on Philippine
Education. Bulgarian Journal of Science and
Education Policy (BJSEP), 8(1).
• Williams, M. (2017). John Dewey in the 21ST
Century. Journal of Inquiry & Action in
Education, 9(1).
• Bolanos, M.A. (2016). John Dewey's Democracy
of Education and the Problem of Education in
the Philippines. Kriktike. 10 (2), pp. 84-89.

29. Thank you for
listening!