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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Some subscribers to
RUME might be interested in a recent discussion-list post "John
Dewey Lives - A Dialogue" [Hake (2012)]. The abstract
reads:<br>
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ABSRACT: Kevin Stacey in an AERA-C post titled</font><font
face="Times" size="+1" color="#141413"> "</font><font
face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Bill Ayers 'exhumes' John Dewey
for a conversation on progressive education" pointed to an
article "</font><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#262626">John
Dewey Lives - A Dialogue</font><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000">" [Ayers & Schubert (2012)] at
<http://bit.ly/Jp4bxF>]. This is an edited transcript of a
conversation between educators William C. Ayers (WCA) and William H.
Schubert (WHS), with the latter, WHS, former president of the John
Dewey Society <http://bit.ly/JrxTlF>, playing the role of John
Dewey (JD).<br>
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In one exchange WCA asks WHS (JD) to respond to Glenn Beck's assertion
that Dewey thought "Teachers aren't there to tell a child if he
or she is right or wrong Š THEY'RE THERE TO HELP THE CHILD THROUGH A
TOUCHY-FEELY PERIOD OF SELF DISCOVERY."<br>
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WHS (JD) responded that in "Experience and Education" Dewey
(1938. 1997) had written that "in considering the
difference between traditional and progressive education, we shouldn't
just take one side or the other, but we should look at a deeper level
where they can both be integrated." And in "Democracy and
Education" Dewey (1916; 1997) had written that "EDUCATION IS
RECONSTRUCTION AND REORGANIZATION OF EXPERIENCE WHICH ADDS TO THE
MEANING OF EXPERIENCE, AND WHICH INCREASES ABILITY TO DIRECT THE
COURSE OF SUBSEQUENT EXPERIENCE. . . . SO IT'S NOT JUST A CATERING TO
INTERESTS.<br>
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For another exhumation of John Dewey see Ted Ansbacher's incisive
"An Interview with John Dewey on Science Education"
[Ansbacher (2000) <http://bit.ly/I89zmr> (click on
"articles in pdf" at the top of the page)].<br>
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To access the complete 13 kB post please click on
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Richard Hake,
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"><rrhake@earthlink.net></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Links to Articles:
<http://bit.ly/a6M5y0><br>
Links to SDI Labs: <http://bit.ly/9nGd3M><br>
Blog: <http://bit.ly/9yGsXh><br>
Twitter <http://bit.ly/juvd52><br>
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"The belief that all genuine education comes about through
experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally
educative."<br>
John Dewey (1938; 1997, p.
25) "Experience and Education"<br>
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". . .the organized subject matter of the specialist represents
the goal toward which education should continuously move."<br>
John Dewey (1938; 1997, p. 83)
"Experience and Education"<br>
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REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed
on 27 April 2012.]</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Hake, R.R. 2012.
"</font><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#262626"> John Dewey
Lives - A Dialogue,"</font><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"> online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at
<http://bit.ly/IFtcED>. Post of 27 Apr 2012 15:16:58-0700 to
AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are
also being transmitted to several discussion lists and are on my blog
"Hake'sEdStuff" at <http://bit.ly/IFAet9> with a
provision for comments.<br>
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