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Direct Purposeful Experience

by: Sheillo A. Gonzales

What is Direct Purposeful Experience?

Direct experiences are concrete or firsthand experiences that serve as the foundation of learning

Direct Experience

John Dewey

An Ounce of EXPERIENCE is BETTER than a TON of THEORIES

John Dewey

“Experience is the best teacher.”

  • It serves as the foundation of concept formation, generalization and abstraction.

Purpose of Direct, Purposeful Experiences

  • It leads us to concept formation and abstraction.
  • Its aim is to develop higher level thinking skills.

"From the rich experiences that our senses bring, we construct the ideas, the concepts, the generalizations that give meaning and order to our lives."

Edgar Dale

  • Performing a laboratory experiment

Example Activity

  • Delivering a speech
  • Taking a trip
  • These involves asking of questions that have significance in the life of the person undergoing the direct experience in relation to a purposeful learning
  • It is done in relation to a certain learning objective.

Reason

  • Purposeful because the experiences are not purely mechanical. They are not a matter of going through the motion. Implications to the teaching- learning process.

1. It gives students opportunities to

learn by doing.

2. let the students immerse in the world of experience

Implications

3. It makes use of real things as instructional materials for as long as possible. It helps the students develop the five senses to the full to heighten their sensitivity to the world

4. It guides the students so that they can draw meaning from their first hand experiences and elevate their level of thinking. Impact of Direct Purposeful Experiences

There would be a possible wrong interpretation of the experience that will lead to inappropriate knowledge. When misguided or misinterpreted, it could possibly cause confusion.

Disadvantage

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