CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
John Dewey is known for?
A
Creating the ‘dewey decimal system’
B
His work in the education field, (Experiential education)
C
Climbing Everest
D
A film actor
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In his book Education and Experience, renowned education philosopher John Dewey wrote, “There is an intimate and necessary relation between the process of actual experience and education” (1938).

Detailed explanation-2: -John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator who was a founder of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -David Kolb is best known for his work on the experiential learning theory or ELT. Kolb published this model in 1984, getting his influence from other great theorists including John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget.

Detailed explanation-4: -For Dewey, experience is a ‘natural’ phenomenon, not outside of the human species but completely inside of it as part of our evolutionary make-up. Experience denotes the way living organisms interact with their environment. For humans, the environment is social, cultural and political.

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