Paper One will be graded pass/fail and should be three pages in length, double-spaced, typed. Your paper shall be evaluated according to the criteria presented by the assessment rubric and by your section instructor.

Reflecting upon your own education in both formal (schooling) and non-formal (scouting, church, family, experience) settings, think about your education as it relates to the philosophy of experience of John Dewey.  What have been the most important influences in your education?  School?  Church?  Television and the Internet?  Who has shaped your education?

Write a brief reflective essay of three typed, double-spaced pages on important educational events and/or ideas in your life.  Using specific citations from John Dewey's Experience and Education (1938), select ideas to which you can relate in terms of your educational experience.  Connect his philosophical notions to examples from your experience. This is more than a recounting; it is an opportunity to consider your educational experience in light of reading John Dewey.  As a first assignment and a personal exploration, the essay will be graded pass/fail.  It will help your instructor get to know you as a writer and as a learner.

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