KIN 884 - Take 2

Nick's additions Kendra's additions Matteo's additions As you read this week, pay particular attention to the reasons Dewey offered agricultural life as an exemplar for educators in The school and social progress. It will help to compare that essay with themes from My pedagogic creed (1897) & The school and social progress (1899) - How do you think these pieces inform his fun little romp through utopia?  In other words, why is he offering utopian schooling as an ideal? Dewey’s creed is a more granular perspective on the utopian schooling ideal.   How is that piece grounded in the other essays? The Utopian Schooling ideal reflects the idealism present in Dewey’s creed. The Utopian school is so obviously grounded in the full integration of the elements of the creed that it is able to realize the abdication of formalized evaluation. Dewey - My Pedagogic Creed What the education is I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the socia...

  Reading response questions for 9/21 Black - Nick Purple - Kendra Blue - Matteo This week in your blogs, p lease collectively summarize the final movement Kliebard discusses: social meliorism.  According to Rugg and Counts, Social Meliorism was d riven by an undercurrent of discontent with the American and Economic Social Systems. There was a g eneral dissatisfaction with the “religion of prosperity” as termed by Dewey (p. 154). School board members were drawn from privileged classes, and undeserved students were not suited to a literary bias in education. Counts argued that although the tax structure stated all students were to be supported, in reality the American school system was only serving a small, privileged few. This movement d eplored the standardization of life and social conformity through education and a ttacked efficiency as the supreme criterion of education. This movement was in contract to the other two movements - one which sought to prepare children a...