CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LEARNING THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What theory developed by John Dewey was based on the belief that social consciousness was the ultimate aim of all education, and learning was useful only in the context of social experience?
A
social activism
B
social scaffolding
C
discovery learning
D
situated cognition
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John Dewey is often seen as the proponent of learning by doing – rather than learning by passively receiving. He believed that each child was active, inquisitive and wanted to explore. He believed that children need to interact with other people, and work both alone and cooperatively with their peers and adults.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Dewey was a leading proponent of the American school of thought known as pragmatism, a view that rejected the dualistic epistemology and metaphysics of modern philosophy in favor of a naturalistic approach that viewed knowledge as arising from an active adaptation of the human organism to its environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Dewey developed a pragmatic theory of inquiry to provide intelligent methods for social progress. He believed that the logic and attitude of successful scientific inquiries, properly conceived, could be fruitfully applied to morals and politics.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Dewey’s theory states that constructivism can build individual and social knowledge and it is then the result of this study. The essence contained in constructivism theory is the meaning of a learning process. Dewey in Jia (2010) claims that knowledge is uncertain.

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