Academic literature on the topic 'John Dewey (1859-1952)'

It is generally agreed that the most influential philosophers in America are Charles S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey. James's fame came rather suddenly in the latter half of his life—roughly, from 1880 to 1910; it flourished with the appearance of his Principles of Psychology (1890) and shortly thereafter with his advocacy of pragmatism and radical empiricism. James was acclaimed in England and Europe as well as in America. Peirce, on the other hand, was almost entirely neglected; his work remained unknown to all but a few philosophers and his chief acknowledgment was as a scientist and logician. His importance began to be recognized and his immense researches and writings studied some twenty-five years after his death. It was otherwise with Dewey. During his long lifetime his ideas not only engaged the reflections and critical discussions of philosophers, he also had a profound and contagious influence on education, the social sciences, aesthetics, and political theory and practice. In this respect his thought has reached a wider audience in America than that of either Peirce or James. In his day lawyers, labour leaders, scientists and several heads of state attested to the vitality of his wisdom.

It is generally agreed that the most influential philosophers in America are Charles S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey. James's fame came rather suddenly in the latter half of his life—roughly, from 1880 to 1910; it flourished with the appearance of his Principles of Psychology (1890) and shortly thereafter with his advocacy of pragmatism and radical empiricism. James was acclaimed in England and Europe as well as in America. Peirce, on the other hand, was almost entirely neglected; his work remained unknown to all but a few philosophers and his chief acknowledgment was as a scientist and logician. His importance began to be recognized and his immense researches and writings studied some twenty-five years after his death. It was otherwise with Dewey. During his long lifetime his ideas not only engaged the reflections and critical discussions of philosophers, he also had a profound and contagious influence on education, the social sciences, aesthetics, and political theory and practice. In this respect his thought has reached a wider audience in America than that of either Peirce or James. In his day lawyers, labour leaders, scientists and several heads of state attested to the vitality of his wisdom.

O artigo aborda o pensamento de John Dewey (1859-1952), educador e filósofo norte-americano do século XX, destacando suas contribuições e contradições. De abordagem eminentemente qualitativa, trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, definindo-se, quanto ao seu objetivo, como uma pesquisa explicativa. Nesse sentido, revisita as obras do autor, bem como críticos e defensores de sua filosofia, para tecer uma imagem de conjuntura de sua pedagogia no meio acadêmico. Situa a obra do autor a partir de duas dimensões: o tríptico histórico do século XX e a concepção de ideia pedagógica que faz jus à teoria de Dewey. Conclui-se que a obra de John Dewey (1859-1952) apresenta posicionamentos e conceitos para compreensão da relação escola e sociedade na medida em que fundamenta uma perspectiva processual de experiência, entretanto, sua aplicação encontra limites em contradições conjunturais e estruturais. Palavras-chave: Continuum experiencial. Educação progressiva. Escola tradicional. Pesquisa bibliográfica.

Esse texto aborda os vínculos entre experiência, Artes Visuais e Educação, através de uma articulação de ensino e aprendizagem de arte criada no Grupo de Estudos Estúdio de Pintura Apotheke, ancorado na Filosofia da Arte como experiência de John Dewey (1859-1952).

Este trabalho examina o discurso do filósofo e educador americano John Dewey (1859-1952) sobre o tema "natureza humana", adotando como referência o livro Human nature and conduct: an introduction to Social Psychology. Nesse livro, publicado em 1922, Dewey discute conceitos fundamentais da psicologia - instinto, hábito, inteligência e outros - e propõe uma nova ciência psicológica; suas elaborações abrangem os campos da filosofia, da psicologia e da educação. A metodologia para análise do discurso segue os estudos desenvolvidos pelo Grupo de Pesquisa Retórica e Argumentação na Pedagogia, os quais se baseiam nas teorias de Chaïm Perelman e Stephen Toulmin.

This article explores the kinds of response John Dewey (1859–1952) received in Russia between 1900 and 1930, and the impact he had on the educational debate there. The study’s main findings are: Both before and after the Socialist October Revolution of 1917, Dewey had a significant impact on the development of the Russian school system. The ultimate rejection of Dewey’s pedagogy towards the end of the 20s was not due to educational but to political and ideological reasons.

Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir a relação entre educação e cidadania na obra de John Dewey (1859-1952). Um dos mais aclamados teóricos educacionais do século XX, Dewey afirma que para o desenvolvimento de uma sociedade é preciso educar seus membros para que estes possam viver em harmonia, independente da classe social ou do grupo étnico, adquirindo através do conhecimento as habilidades necessárias para tomar decisões de forma autônoma e em confluência com as necessidades do grupo em que estão inseridos. Para refletir sobre essa relação, analisaremos algumas das obras centrais de Dewey - especialmente “Democracia e Educação” (publicado originalmente em 1916) e “Experiência e Educação” (publicado originalmente em 1938) – à luz de investigações realizadas por especialistas na temática.

This article discusses John Dewey’s (1859–1952): Theory of valuation (1939), Art as experience (1934), A common faith (1934), The public and its problems (1927) for the socio-anthropological analysis of the religious. This pragmatist approach, attentive to intersubjectivity and experience, allows to work on aspirations and ideals, through giving place to emotions besides rationality in the valuation process. Further, the idea of public and pre-political, permits to pay attention to processes which are different from differentiation and where people contribute to the common good from their specific (minority) situation. In a pragmatist approach, believing comes in three modalities as ‘caring about,’ in the sense of giving value to forms of experiences and self-construction, respectively, to forms of self-transcendence, and to ways of connecting with the world (others and nature).

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In this dissertation we examined the conception of experience and school education in John Dewey (1859-1952). Our objective it was analyze these concepts with finality to understand the relation between the knowledge that comes from practical contemporary experience, linked with the relation in which the individual it is inserted and the knowledge that comes from the historical experience accumulated by the humanity. Considering the proposed, we developed the essay in three chapters. At the first one, we situate the author’s thought in the social context and theoretical of north american society at final decades of XIX century and the first half of XX century presenting his understanding about democracy and education in a complex society. At the second one, we approach the concepts of interaction, continuity, interest and effort, because they guide the author’s formulations about the conception of educative experience. Finally, at the third one, we analyze the conception of educative experience shown by the author synthesized as a result of the effort of the human intelligence who connect the contemporary experience with the historical experience. We prioritized as a source of our research the essays: Interest and effort (1895), My Pedagogic Creed (1897), The School and Society (1899), Democracy and Education (1916), Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920) and Experience and Education (1938). About the research results, we show especially that for Dewey, there is a close connection between practical experience and historical knowledge, being these two elements the base of school education, fundamental space of individual formation and development and conservation of democratic life at the society.
Nesta dissertação, examinamos a concepção de experiência e educação escolar em John Dewey (1859-1952). Nosso objetivo foi o de analisar os referidos conceitos com a finalidade de entender a relação entre o conhecimento oriundo da experiência prática contemporânea, ligada às relações nas quais o indivíduo se insere e o conhecimento oriundo da experiência historicamente acumulada pela humanidade. Tendo em vista o proposto, desenvolvemos o trabalho em três capítulos. No primeiro, situamos o pensamento do autor no contexto social e teórico da sociedade estadunidense no transcorrer das décadas finais do século XIX e primeira metade do século XX ressaltando o seu entendimento sobre a democracia e a educação numa sociedade complexa. No segundo, abordamos os conceitos de interação, continuidade, ambiente escolar, interesse e esforço, pois os mesmos orientam as formulações do autor no que se refere à concepção de experiência educativa. Por fim, analisamos a concepção de experiência educativa apresentada pelo autor, sintetizada como resultado do esforço da inteligência humana que associa a experiência contemporânea com a experiência histórica. Priorizamos como fonte de nossa pesquisa, as seguintes obras do autor: Interesse e esforço (1895), Meu Credo Pedagógico (1897), A Escola e a Sociedade (1899), Democracia e Educação (1916), Reconstrução em Filosofia (1920) e Experiência e Educação (1938). Dos resultados da pesquisa, ressaltamos especialmente, que para Dewey existe uma conexão intima entre experiência prática e conhecimento histórico, estando nestes dois elementos o fundamento da educação escolar, espaço primacial da formação do indivíduo e do desenvolvimento e conservação da vida democrática na sociedade.

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D’emblée, cette thèse s’est donnée une orientation générale soucieuse de penser ensemble les dimensions théorique et pratique de l’éthique. Dans cette perspective, le pragmatisme de John Dewey s’est vite imposé comme cadre conceptuel permettant de lui fournir des assises épistémologiques rigoureuses tout en ouvrant la voie au développement d’outils pratiques visant la résolution de problèmes concrets. Ainsi, savoir et savoir-faire pourraient se nourrir mutuellement. S’inscrivant dans la foulée de la théorie de l’évolution de Darwin, la philosophie de Dewey adopte un naturalisme rejetant tout dualisme opposant le corps et la pensée. L’expérience humaine est abordée dans sa continuité avec l’environnement naturel et social qui est le sien. Langage, idées et théories peuvent dès lors être conçus comme autant d’instruments contribuant à améliorer notre adaptation aux changements constants de cet environnement. Produites dans l’expérience et validées par elle, si précieuses soient-elles, nos connaissances générales seraient d’une utilité limitée sans les ressources cognitives d’une être capable de raisonner dans des contextes chaque fois uniques. Sur le plan éthique, une éducation se limitant à l’apprentissage de grands principes moraux ne suffira donc pas à orienter adéquatement la conduite humaine. Son rôle étant d’habiliter à trouver les solutions les mieux adaptées à des problèmes spécifiques, l’éducation morale doit d’abord viser le développement d’habiletés intellectuelles contribuant à l’autonomie de chacun et de chacune. Une approche réflexive de l’éthique s’impose donc selon Dewey, mais cela sans toutefois renier l’importance des normes et des habitudes, incluant les dispositions morales. Pour lui, le travail de reconstruction ou d’amélioration de la théorie éthique doit s’abreuver à plusieurs sources. D’abord des connaissances que nous pouvons dégager à même notre propre vie morale. Ensuite, des théories éthiques dont nous disposons déjà pour jeter un éclairage utile sur nos pratiques. Enfin, de toutes les disciplines susceptibles de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de la conduite humaine. En développant une conception naturaliste de la logique accompagnée d’une théorie de l’enquête fournissant les grandes étapes d’une méthode de résolution de problèmes, Dewey nous offre la possibilité de rapprocher le savoir du général du savoir-faire du singulier. Sur le plan épistémologique, cette thèse débouche sur une conception probabiliste de l’éthique. Sans prétendre à quelque certitude, la pensée réfléchie contribue à augmenter la probabilité que l’agent moral contrôle son action de manière à produire de meilleurs résultats qu’en s’en remettant exclusivement à ses impulsions, à ses désirs, à ses habitudes ou aux normes en vigueur. Sur le plan pratique, elle mène à l’hypothèse que l’explicitation des valeurs en tension dans une situation problématique contribue à augmenter la qualité d’une délibération et de la décision qui en résultera. Cela s’accompagne aussi de la nécessité de proportionner la délibération à l’importance des enjeux identifiés à même le processus d’enquête. John Dewey a produit une théorie de la valuation qu’il disait inachevée et qui devait selon lui être « développée et perfectionnée » par un usage approprié encore inexistant. Cette thèse défend l’idée que l’explicitation des valeurs pourrait bien être cet usage approprié permettant de mieux résoudre nos problèmes éthiques pratiques. Nous pensons donc qu’elle peut contribuer, comme le souhaitait Dewey, au « développement d’une théorie de valuation comme instrument efficace ». C’est ainsi que nous aurons atteint notre objectif d’un enrichissent mutuel de la théorie et de la pratique de l’éthique.
The general approach at the start of this thesis was to merge the theoretical and practical aspects of ethics. From this perspective, John Dewey’s pragmatism rapidly became the conceptual framework on which to base solid and rigorous epistemological foundations leading to the development of practical tools to resolve concrete problems. Knowledge and know-how could therefore benefit from true synergy. Along the same lines as Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, Dewey’s philosophy adopts a naturalistic posture rejecting any dualism opposing mind and body. The human experience is considered in its continuity within its natural and social environment. Language, ideas and theories can therefore be viewed as many instruments contributing to improving our adaptation to constant changes in this environment. Broad knowledge is gained, built and validated by experience. But however valuable this knowledge may be, it would be of limited usefulness without the cognitive resources of the human capacity to reason in ever unique situations. From an ethical point of view, education limited to the learning of major moral founding principles would then be insufficient to adequately guide human conduct. Moral education with its role of providing means to better resolve specific problems, must first aim to fully develop intellectual abilities to enable individual autonomy. Therefore, from Dewey’s point of view, a reflexive approach to ethics is necessary without however denying the importance of norms and habits, including moral disposition. Dewey views the reconstruction or the improvement of the theory of ethics to be fuelled by different sources: from the knowledge we gain from leading our own moral life, from existing ethical theories we can draw from to help us shed light on our own practices and finally, from all disciplines that may contribute to a better understanding of human conduct. In developing a naturalistic concept on logic supported by an inquiry theory outlining the global steps of a problem-solving methodology, Dewey provides the opportunity to close the distance between broad knowledge and specific know-how. From an epistemological point of view, this thesis launches a probabilistic concept of ethics. Without claiming to any certainties, reflective thought contributes to increasing the probability that moral agent can control their actions for better results rather than base them only on impulse, desire, habit or standard conventions. From a practical point of view, this leads us to hypothesize that the explicitation of conflictual values within a problem situation contributes to increasing the quality of deliberation and, from there, to increasing the probability that the decision resulting from it will yield better results. This also entails that the deliberation be proportionate to the importance of issues identified within the inquiry process itself. John Dewey elaborated a theory of valuation which he qualified as incomplete and, according to him, to be “developed and perfected” through an appropriate but still inexistent use. This thesis advances that explicitation of values may be this appropriate use which can help resolve concrete ethical problems. We believe this notion may contribute, as Dewey wished, to the “development of a theory of valuation as an effective instrumentality”, thus achieving our goal of mutual enrichment of both theory and practice of ethics.

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Ce mémoire a pour ambition de présenter le rôle joué par la notion de sens (meaning) dans la philosophie de l’éducation de John Dewey. Pour y parvenir, nous exposerons, d’une part, la conception de l’expérience de cet auteur dans laquelle le sens joue un rôle premier en tant que relation perçue entre les éléments de l’expérience. En effet, l’expérience pour Dewey se comprend comme étant la perception d’un sens, soit d’une relation de continuité entre ce que nous faisons aux choses et ce que nous subissons en retour. Ainsi, ce qui possède un sens est ce que nous sommes capables de lier, de voir dans ses connexions logiques. Cette conception permet, en autres choses, de surpasser les dualismes de la philosophie classique qui ont eu comme lourdes conséquences une fragmentation de l’expérience. Nous montrerons la nature de cette fragmentation et comment est-ce que, lorsqu’elle se voit cristallisée dans le programme scolaire, elle entraîne une insignifiance dans le vécu de l’enfant. D’autre part, nous expliquerons comment Dewey propose de repenser l’éducation pour en faire une éducation de, par et pour l’expérience, visant à la formation de la pensée, et ce, en suivant les grandes lignes de la méthode scientifique. Nous montrerons par le fait même comment l’éducation, plutôt qu’une transmission de savoirs, doit plutôt se comprendre comme étant une reconstruction du sens de l’expérience. Enfin, nous relèverons les conséquences pratiques de cette théorie et exposerons conséquemment les changements proposés par Dewey pour transformer la salle de classe de manière à faire de l’école un lieu où les enfants peuvent trouver et créer du sens.
This master’s thesis aims to present the function played by the concept of meaning in the philosophy of education from John Dewey. To do so, firstly, we will explain the philosopher’s conception of experience in which the notion of meaning plays a decisive part as the perceived relation between the elements of experience. As a matter of fact, experience for Dewey can be defined by the perception of meaning, that is a relationship of continuity between what we are doing to things and what we undergo in return. Thus, that which has a meaning - or makes sense - is what we are able to link, to perceive in its logical connections. This theory enables Dewey to surpass classical philosophy’s dualisms which caused, as a heavy consequence, the fragmentation of experience. We will present the nature of this fragmentation and how, when it is crystallized in the school curriculum, it leads to a loss of meaning in the child's experience. Secondly, we will explain how Dewey proposes to rethink education to make it an education of, by and for experience, aiming at the training of the students’ thinking, and this, by following the broad lines of the scientific method. We will show how education, rather than a transmission of knowledge, should be understood as a reconstruction of the meanings of experience. Finally, we will review the practical implications of this theory, and then outline Dewey's proposed changes to transform the classroom to make the school a place where children can find and create meaning.

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O presente trabalho analisa as concepções filosóficas de John Dewey, tomando como principal referência o livro The quest for certainty: a study of the relation of knowledge and action, publicado em 1929, no qual o autor propõe utilizar o método das ciências experimentais no campo das ciências humanas, em especial para o exame dos juízos morais. Nesse livro, Dewey defende o rompimento da dicotomia entre teoria e prática e atribui caráter probabilístico aos conhecimentos advindos da investigação científica, tomando como exemplo a mecânica quântica. Os referenciais metodológicos empregados na análise do discurso deweyano advêm da nova retórica, teoria proposta por Chaïm Perelman e Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca em Tratado da argumentação. O objetivo do trabalho é mostrar a proximidade entre Dewey e o ceticismo, tomando por base as concepções de Pirro de Élis sistematizadas por Enesidemo e Sexto Empírico, bem como desenvolvimentos recentes dessa filosofia. A intenção mais ampla do trabalho é contribuir para a discussão de teses que divergem em relação ao tema focalizado nesta pesquisa: de um lado, as que responsabilizam o ceticismo deweyano pelos males da educação contemporânea, e, de outro, as que atribuem a Dewey a origem de importantes progressos na pedagogia.
The present study analyses the philosophical conceptions of John Dewey presented in the book The quest for certainty: a study of the relation of knowledge and action, published in 1929, in which the author proposes to use the method of experimental sciences in human sciences, specially to the examination of moral judgments. In this book, Dewey defends the disruption of the dichotomy between practical and theory and attributes a probabilistic character to the scientific inquiry knowledge, citing as an example the quantun mechanics. The methodology adopted to analyze deweyan discourse is the new rhetoric, based upon Treatise of argumentation by Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. The objective of the this work is to show to the proximity between Dewey and the skepticism, having as a basis the conceptions of Pyrrho from Élis systematized by Aenesidemus and Sextus Empiricus, as well as recent developments of this philosophy. The work also intends to contribute for the discussion of theses which diverge on the theme of this work: on the one hand, the ones that blame Dewey’s skepticism for the harmfulness of contemporary education; and, on the other, those which attribute the origin of important progress in pedagogy to Dewey.

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Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre o livro Logic: the theory of inquiry de John Dewey, publicado originalmente em 1938. O objetivo é compreender os argumentos de Dewey acerca da lógica, caracterizada como teoria da investigação, e situá-los no conjunto do pensamento deweyano, de maneira a explicitar sua ligação com temáticas educacionais e políticas, focalizando especialmente a noção de democracia. Para isso, são analisadas também as obras Como pensamos e Democracia e educação, do mesmo autor. O método empregado para exame do Logic conta com duas chaves interpretativas: a primeira advém da teoria da argumentação desenvolvida por Chaïm Perelman e Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca no livro Tratado da argumentação: a nova retórica, e a segunda, do modelo jurisprudencial de exposição e análise de silogismos elaborado por Stephen Toulmin em Os usos do argumento.
This work presents the results of a research on the book Logic: the theory of inquiry by John Dewey, originally published in 1938. The objective is to understand the arguments about the logic proposed by Dewey, characterized as a theory of inquiry, and to situate them throughout the Dewey’s thought, so as to clarify its connection with educational and political issues, focusing especially the deweyan notion of democracy. To do so, the work also analyses Democracy and education and How we think by Dewey. The method used to examine Logic has two theoretical sources: first, the theory of arguments developed by Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca in the book Treatise of argumentation: the new rhetoric; second, the model of juridical exposition and analysis of syllogisms developed by Stephen Toulmin in The uses of argument.

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O movimento de revisão da teoria aristotélica desencadeado no século XX afastou Aristóteles de interpretações teológicas até então hegemônicas, permitindoo surgimento de investigações que relacionam a sua filosofia com as ideias de pensadores que o sucederam, como é o caso de John Dewey. Considerando que esse tema ainda requer aprofundamentos, em especial quanto às bases psicológicas que sustentam os dois filósofos, o presente trabalho focaliza o conceito de homem e de desenvolvimento humano nos discursos de Aristóteles e Dewey. Esta investigação utiliza a análise retórica oriunda de Chaïm Perelman, buscando compreender as estratégias argumentativas utilizadas pelos dois autores (definidos como oradores) para persuadir seus leitores (definidos como auditório).Foram examinados os escritos da maturidade de Aristóteles e vários textos de Dewey, a maioria deles elaborados durante o período em que o autor trabalhou em Chicago e Columbia. Os resultados da pesquisa estão organizados em quatro capítulos, sendo o primeiro deles referente às definições aristotélica e deweyana de ser humano; a análise utiliza o conceito de dissociação de noções. O segundo capítulo discorre sobre o processo de formação e desenvolvimento do homem, utilizando para isso a conceituação de metáfora. O terceiro discute o contexto propício à formação e ao desenvolvimento humano, recorrendo à noção de filosofia prática. O último capítulo apresenta a linguagem e os acordos linguísticos como fatores causais da definição de homem e da promoção do desenvolvimento humano. Todos os capítulos discutem a relação entre discurso e auditório em cada um dos filósofos. A conclusão defende que as semelhanças entre Aristóteles e Dewey são mais significativas do que as suas diferenças, especialmente porque ambos adotam concepções contrárias ao transcendentalismo, o que fica evidente em suas teorizações sobre a linguagem ...
The movement to reviewthe Aristotelian theory unleashed in the 20th centurydeviated Aristotle from theological interpretations hitherto hegemonic, allowing the emergenceof investigations that relate his philosophy to the ideas of thinkers who emerged after him, such as John Dewey.Considering that this subject still requires deepening, especially regardingthepsychological foundations that underlie the two philosophers, this paper focuses on the concept of man and human development in the speeches of Aristotle and Dewey. This research uses the rhetorical analysis from ChaïmPerelman, seekingto understand the argumentative strategies used by the two authors (defined as speakers) to persuade their readers (defined asauditorium).Writings of Aristotle’smaturity and several texts from Dewey were examined, most of them developed during the period in which the author worked in Chicago and Columbia. The results from this investigation are organized into four chapters, the first one referring to the Aristotelian and Deweyan definitions of being human; the analysis uses the concept of dissociation of notions. The second chapter talks aboutthe process of formation and development of man, using the conceptof metaphorin order to do it.The third chapter discusses the appropriate context to the human development and formation, usingthe concept of practical philosophy. The final chapter presents the language and linguistic arrangements as causesofthe definition of man and promotion of human development. All chapters discuss the relationship between speech and audience in each of the philosophers.Theconclusion argues that the similarities between Aristotle and Dewey are more meaningful than their differences, especially because both adopt ideas contrary to the transcendentalism, which is clearin their theorizationsabout language. Finally, the paperdiscusses the relevance of this conclusion for the field of education ...

« Concernant l’expérience esthétique, le philosophe se doit donc de comprendre de quoi il y a expérience » déclare J. Dewey et c’est sur la base de son enquête que nous tenterons dans la première partie de notre recherche, de répondre à cette injonction. Il s’agira d’abord de comprendre les exigences, les difficultés et les enjeux de cette conception de l’expérience esthétique saisie dans sa continuité avec l’expérience ordinaire. On ne peut concevoir l’expérience esthétique comme une entité séparée de l’expérience ordinaire, mais on ne peut non plus en galvauder la spécificité en la diluant dans le flux de nos expériences. Radicale, l’esthétique de Dewey l’est aussi en ce qu’elle invite à ne plus dissocier l’esthétique et l’artistique, la contemplation et la pratique, la réception et la création, mais cherche plutôt à saisir la continuité qui relie ces distinctions abstraites au sein d’une même expérience vivante. C’est à la portée critique de cette reconstruction d’une expérience unifiée que nous consacrerons la deuxième partie de cette recherche. Enfin, radicale, l’esthétique pragmatiste l’est à un troisième titre en ce qu’elle refuse les fictions paresseuses de l’intériorité pour comprendre l’individualité du sujet esthétique qu’il soit créateur ou récepteur. L’expérience esthétique apparaît bien à la fois comme l’expérience la plus individuelle et la plus accomplie, mais son individualité ne présuppose pas l’existence d’un individu pensé comme un atome isolé. Ainsi, ce que Dewey nous invite à repenser et à reconstruire c’est le lien mouvant qui unit l’individu et la société démocratique
« To esthetic experience, then, the philosopher must go to understand what experience is. » J. Dewey claims and the first part of our research will rest on Dewy's inquiry on experience in an attempt to comply with his injunction. To begin with, we will endeavour to understand what are the requirements, the difficulties and the possible gains of this conception of aesthetic experience, which is described as closely connected to commonplace experience. Aesthetic experience can not be conceived as separate from commonplace experience, but neither should its specificity be lessened by dilution in the general flow of human experience. Dewey's aesthetics is also radical in that he argues against the distinction between the aesthetic and the artistic, between the artist's creativity and the audience's contemplation, between creation and appreciation. To the contrary, he attempts to take hold of what relates the two facets of the artistic process and to merge them into one and the same living experience. The second part of our research will be devoted to uncovering the critical scope of this reconstruction of experience. To proceed further, the radical quality of pragmatist aesthetics can be found in its refusal of the lazy fictions of the inner self and in its attempt to understand the individuality of the aesthetic subject, whether creator or recipient.Aesthetic experience is revealed as the most individual and fulfilled experience; on the other hand its uniqueness in no way requires the existence of an individual conceived of as an isolated atom. Thus, what Dewey suggests is that we reconsider and rebuild the fluctuating link that unites individuals and democratic society

Many of the problems in dominant Western education and philosophy can be connected to various dualisms, in particular reason/emotion, reason/imagination, reason/experience, mind/body, subject/object, individual/community, abstract/concrete, theory/practice and male/female dualisms. These pairs are considered opposites, with the attributes on the left supposedly superior to their dualistic partners on the right. While those attributes on the left, such as mind and reason, are traditionally associated with knowledge, autonomy, citizenship and learning, the attributes on the right, such as emotion and experience, are traditionally thought to be opposed to knowledge, autonomy, citizenship and learning. Drawing on the philosophies of John Dewey and various feminist philosophers, I will argue that the attributes that make up each of these dualistic pairs are not opposed but are actually interdependent and interconnected. For example, I will argue that all thinking and learning involves reason, experience, emotion and imagination interacting with one and other. Neither of these attributes or functions is complete or fully functional without the others. Since mainstream Western pedagogies incorporate such dualisms they are unable to fully facilitate the thinking skills, attributes, dispositions and understandings necessary for autonomy, democratic citizenship and leading a meaningful life. It will be shown that Philosophy for Children (P4C) has the potential to overcome many of the problems with mainstream education, including many gender equity problems, because it is based on Dewey???s philosophical ideals, which reconstruct many of these dualisms. An analysis of the ideals of truth, meaning, community, self, autonomy, democracy, thinking, emotion and imagination assumed by P4C will show how it reconstructs various dualisms and overcomes many problems with traditional schooling. However, it will also be shown that P4C fails to reconstruct the undesirable theory/practice dualism because it doesn???t require students to test and apply their ideas in the real world. This is even though many P4C theorists, such as Matthew Lipman, accept Dewey???s claim that all thinking and learning involve such practicality. Thus, I will reconstruct the P4C pedagogy by integrating it with a Deweyian type of service learning that I call social reconstruction learning. Social reconstruction learning involves students engaging in P4C style communities of inquiry with members of their community in order to reconstruct real social problems. Such a Practical P4C pedagogy can better facilitate reflective thinking, autonomy, active citizenship and meaningfulness.

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John Dewey buscou revolucionar a educação escolar por meio de uma reconstrução filosófica e cultural. Ele procurou resolver um problema secular da filosofia: dualidades estabelecidas tanto com o idealismo quanto com o empirismo. E articulou a filosofia da educação em outros termos lógicos, estéticos e morais, priorizando a relação entre filosofia e realidade social. A filosofia de Dewey está amparada no conceito de experiência. Experiência significa mudança, mas teremos uma mudança simplesmente mecânica ou física, avisa Dewey, se não atentarmos aos significados das nossas ações, que emergem do ambiente. Quando estabelecemos uma relação significativa com o ambiente, é sinal de que a experiência se tornou reflexiva. A educação escolar consiste em expandir, enriquecer, fazer crescer os significados da vida. O professor deve se ater ao desenvolvimento individual de cada aluno. Ao professor cabe analisar igualmente o ambiente e as suas direções. Isso implica não apenas a análise e escolha dos melhores métodos de ensino e aprendizagem, mas leva o professor a atentar à sua própria experiência. A sua influência nos hábitos dos alunos suscita problemas de ordem moral e intelectual, impondo o conhecimento moral como uma resposta à separação entre uma formação centrada na aquisição de conhecimentos empíricos e técnicos das ciências exatas, físicas e biológicas e uma formação humanista e racional das ciências humanas, mais voltada para o trabalho conceitual. O método individual deweyano que leva em conta a experiência do professor faz do ensino uma arte. Em face dessa perspectiva pragmatista, concluímos que é possível pensar atualmente a experiência reflexiva deweyana diante do empobrecimento da experiência, contrariando as críticas ao seu pensamento. No presente, é latente a preocupação com o empobrecimento da experiência que transcende...
In our interpretative perspective, John Dewey worked in the field of Philosophy and Education, in the first half of the XX Century, with the term experience, to whom it was the continuity of the relation between an agent and his environment, which both would come out physiologically, emotionally, and intellectually modified. This is what we call unity of experience in Dewey thought. It is a respond to the diagnosis of the impoverishment of experience inside the critical tradition of John Dewey. He highlighted the importance of growing in the relation between giving meaning and communicated them to a community. The meaning of the term experience and the possibility to reflect and communicate our experiences, nowadays, has become a glowing problem to contemporary debate in philosophy and philosophy of education. Such problem mirrors the tension regarding the harms that the Modern project of knowledge imposed to actual life: the experience reduced itself to the empiric and the knowledge that mirrored the experience has reduced itself to the scientific knowledge and technologies. These characteristics represent the criticism from Critical Theory tradition of the Frankfurt School in what became so called impoverishment of experience. The existential emptiness is part of the scenario that Modernity helped to construct. The philosopher Max Horkheimer arose from such tradition of the diagnosis of the impoverishment of experience and imposed to the Deweyan Pragmatism one of the hardest criticism of the XX Century, by approaching positivism and pragmatism. Dewey, sad Horkheimer, contributed to the impoverishment of experience by reflecting in his philosophy a social dualism. We are looking forward to respond to Horkheimer criticism and to bring Dewey s philosophy to help us to think our educational problems in the present. Nowadays, there are at least two researches that continue the Deweyan project... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)