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Session 2
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Sense of Place II: Dewey on Experiential Education & A Forest Environment Field Study & Trip |
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Students will primarily focus upon Dewey's introduction to "Experience & Education" and will apply these concepts in visiting a Forest Environment as a part of this week assignments. This will provide yet another opportunity for students to make journal entries. |
Readings |
Readings:
Read John Dewey's Experience and Education, 1938. Chapters 1,2,3,5,8. Web Readings: John Dewey's School & Society: Essay One (The School & Social Process) |
Writing Assignment |
Paper One is Due Today! Your next paper (paper 2) is due on Session Five. Click on the icon for a preview! |
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Discussion
Questions
1. Please compare & contrast traditional versus progressive education. 2. Please indicate whether your education primarily been "traditional" or "progressive." Explain why. 3. What is the difference between an educative and a miseducative experience. Please provide examples of both types of experiences. 4. Who was John Dewey, and what was his significant contribution to education & philosophy? 5. When, in the chronology of Dewey's life, did he write Experience & Education? 6. Identify two other books written by Dewey. What were these books concerned with? 7. In John Dewey's essay, "The School and Social Progress," he refers to a ""New Education" (required) in the light of larger changes in society." Of these changes, Dewey is particularly concerned for the future of the "new education" as it regards "the application of science resulting in the great inventions that have utilized the forces of nature on a vast and inexpensive scale." What are Dewey's concerns regarding such applications of science and how they will impact upon education? Can you see any environmental concerns that Dewey anticipated in this essay? Continue with your comments from week 1. Place them on the message board. Have them completed by the end of this week. |
Field Trip |
Field Trip # 2 - Sense of place. Click here for information on meeting the course objectives for this field trip. Submit your Field trip report to me by attaching it to the Web Board upon completion of the field trip. Make sure you address all of the questions cited for this session. Your comments will be shared with the campus class. |
Journal Writing |
Continue with your journal entries. Be creative and open, and allow what you read in the newspaper, what you see on television, and the music and news you hear on the radio or on your sound system also inform you regarding themes and issues related to environmental sustainability. |
Final Project |
Continue to think about the term project. Click the icon for project information. |