Saturday, February 11, 2006

Friere and Dewey

Several of you posted excellent comments on Paolo Friere's "The Banking Concept of Education." For those who have not yet done so, here is a small section of John Dewey's "My Pedagogic Creed" (part of next week's reading).
"I believe that much of present education fails because it neglects this fundamental principle of the school as a form of community life. It conceives the school as a place where certain information is to be given, where certain lessons are to be ]earned, or where certain habits are to be formed. The value of these is conceived as lying largely in the remote future; the child must do these things for the sake of something else he is to do; they are mere preparation. As a result they do not become a part of the life experience of the child and so are not truly educative."
Imagine a conversation between Friere and Dewey. What points would they share; what would they dispute?
Have fun!
ProfC

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