The influence of John Dewey's Philosophy in the 21st century

Good morning. Um

My friends,

I'm gonna be presenting today my students discussion for today's presentation.

I'm going to be focusing on the influence

of John Dewey's philosophy in the 21st century.

So yeah, I'm gonna be talking first of all, a general overview of his philosophy,

um the journey that he followed and overall um what kind of

influences he have in his background and on the other hand,

um the way in which his educational philosophy pedagogy

Had concrete influence as well in different schools in the 21st century.

So saying that, let's just start talking about uh john Dewey,

John Dewey was born in 1859 in Burlington Vermont,

he grew up in a family that was very active in the social community,

in a in a democratic vision of the political community.

These experiences influence who he was an educator and philosopher.

Dewey was a firm believer in groups of people

coming together to problem solve in a peaceful way

through a process of for instance, discussion debates

and decision making. So it was something that he already had in his background.

So do we believe about democracy community and problem solving,

guided the development of his social educational philosophies,

do we may have been the most,

well not an influential philosopher to impact education um today.

Now I love this phrase.

If we teach the students, as with yesterday's

we'll rob them off tomorrow,

let's try to focus now in john do we philosophy.

So he,

in the overview, he had these

vision

of approach of philosophical

pragmatism

according to john Dewey in order to make clear the value

and the meaning and the truth of the concept of democracy understood.

We need to link it to the individual social action

and their involvement with social processes,

one of which is progressive education

in this light.

The american philosopher heart of these beliefs is the placement

of individual thinking at the service of social individual action.

He does not accept a transcendent transcendent reality,

but rather connects reality with experience.

And this lies the core of pragmatism which was the

answer to um kind of division between rationalism and empiricism.

Rationalism advocates that only reason constitutes

the main cognitive power which can reach

the knowledge of reality through a priority logical categories or ideas etcetera.

Right,

Pragmatism advocates the unity of both. Okay, knowledge

in action,

values

and experiences.

So introduces criteria or introduces a rule

for the meaning of concepts.

The main idea of this rule is that the

meaning of concept is located at its consequences example,

in the way it alters the behavior of human beings

and not in a metaphysical search. Right?

So this is the beautiful thing of him, how he put together these two realities.

Knowledge and experience.

No,

we can say that there was a big influence in his philosophy from the great outdoors.

It's it's it's at the core of his philosophy, john Doe is philosophy

this pragmatism.

Do we raise all that He um altruistically advocated in the field of social practice,

critical thinking,

abstract knowledge,

militarism, sorry, utilitarianism. Empiricism and experimentation

at the center of his natural naturalism lies the dynamic concept of experience.

Mhm.

Um There was here um big influence

actually from the platonic pluralistic understanding.

These methods are none other than our experiences, our actions, our aspirations

disappoint um explains do with

occasional positive attitude towards asian green philosophers

as I told you right now.

Right, especially plateau in Aristotle

within this framework. Do it turns to the past

not in order to kind of you know,

seek solutions from it because it's not the case

but to build on its basis a new form of education.

This kind of education seeks to integrate the model, the beneficial,

the humanitarian social cognitive and actually the aesthetic field as well.

Its background is the aristotelian

aristotelian philosophical experience of education

and it will shape a moral democratic educational community,

full of aesthetic and instructive experiences

whose dimensions, imagination, feelings,

experiences and concept will increase and improve the quality of moral education.

Now

the american philosopher

uh clear preference for aristotelian ethics is justified

by the fact that virtue for Aristotle equals the competence for riches acts which

are in turn achieved through continuous exercise for the conquest of that virtue.

Aristotle's model idea in particular is the active

nous of the individual which he considers the

greatest efficiency of human activity and for the

more a manifestation of the cognition of rational beings

at the same time you can do is think

er of american thinker finds in aristotelian contemplation.

A key argument regarding the bridging of rational um with proper actions, right?

This bridging comes through appropriate relationships with other people.

So this is the influence that he received from Aristotle

through this period of history.

The connection of the humanities with natural studies strengthens

the value of knowledge in addressing problematic situations.

The thinker sees these connections under the light of platonic thought,

therefore aiming to individual growth, social prosperity

and to the proper functioning of social associations.

So, if we consider the think here as if social philosopher,

we have to classify him closer to the platonic view as a result, both do we.

His ancestor plateau are characterized by similar social spirit and

seek its designation with the purpose of cultivating moral values

that in turn lead to an educational environmental moral education

which is very interesting.

Here is based on the bulb, the american pragmatist sense,

the importance of the fundamental connection between family and school

and as well between school and social life of community

within this framework.

He included the avoidance of any kind of separation between practical

and theoretical studies.

This is because this operation will reduce the moral quality of

the students knowledge a quality manifested through the range of perspective,

the openness of spirit, the commitment of honest to honesty.

Okay, somewhat over inspire moral education.

The ideal is to achieve the passage from

self interest to wholeness and from family to society

this conference, the educational process, not only as a social function,

but this is very interesting, also as a social institution.

No,

that we have this um general overview of

where is john Dewey's philosophy coming from,

in terms in terms of certain philosophers influences.

Okay, I focus just of course in classics, right?

But of course he had many other influences,

but this is not the time to discuss about all john Dewey's background philosophy.

Now, let's just jump into the evidences. Okay, in the 21st century,

More than 50 years after his dead son of his ideas and philosophies,

although looking very different,

are being used to promote students engagement

in classroom to the Jews of Technology,

through the use of tools such as cell phones, texting, instant messaging,

chat rooms with these teachers can instruct students

using the tools that they are already comfortable.

Students are already comfortable with the most effectively

disperse give information and academy counting academic context

By designing instruction to meet the social needs of

students through the use of a properly aligned technology do

with social learning theory is evident in these classrooms and

in these schools that we're gonna be presenting number one

responsive classroom

One teaching approach.

Um that stresses the importance of

building community of learners has showed evidence

of do with theories in the 21st century is the responsive classroom curriculum.

Um it is a research based approach to teaching great skate weight,

that focuses on the strong link between

academic achievement and social emotional learning.

The premise behind the response inclusion

approach is that a high quality education

is built on the foundation of a safe and happy learning community.

That's why we find here actually in this picture,

transform your classroom with culturally responsive teaching.

Many of john Dewey's tourists and ideas

are evident in the responsive classroom approach.

Responsive classroom has very specific recommendation and strategies

for how teachers can start the squeegee it off

in a way that establishes that classroom community

that will allow students thrive socially and academically,

how well creating one um, climate

and tone in the classroom in which students feel

safe teaching the schedule and routines of the school.

They including behavior expectations within each of them,

showing students their physical learning space, etcetera, etcetera.

Right

now, the question is,

how

do we see John Dewey's influence in the response in classroom?

Many of the goals and practices that take place in the response

in classrooms are aligned actually with

building a positive social classroom climate,

effort to increase student achievement.

And as you might recall,

john Dewey was an advocate for school being a social institution for Children

and for classrooms to provide learning opportunities that allow the

students to engage in appropriate social interactions with their peers.

Many of the concepts that have been shared here are reflective of such practices.

Therefore,

teachers who currently subscribe to the

use of responses classroom teaching techniques.

Uh

actually they are showing evidence of john

Dewey story of the 21st century classroom,

let's move forward,

Montessori,

the Montessori method, you are very familiar with

um, alliance with the learning center ideology of curriculum, The science,

by insisting that teachers design appropriate

curriculum through careful observation of their students

curriculum should be based on student's talents,

personal interests and their physical and

social needs according to Maria Montessori.

So Maria Montessori,

much like John Dewey believed that traditional schools were uninspiring

institutions which he did not support an environment of learning.

She viewed traditional schools as boring and monotonous institutions that

stifle student creativity for the more she noted that in

an effort to get students on task teacher in traditional

schools relieved heavily on rewards and punishments etcetera etcetera.

Right.

She believed Montessori that perhaps an approach that focused

on the interests of students would be more successful.

So how do we see John Dewey's influence in Maria Montessori

Montessori schools are an additional model which

show evidence of john Dewey's terrorists do.

It was a proponent of curriculum decisions and learning activities

being driven by social needs and student interest Maria Montessori,

much like john do we

believe

that these schools,

this approach will really, I mean the traditional will not will not be workable.

Right,

So all these components made it clear that Maria Montessori was one

of the pioneers of the emerging learning certain movement and her ideas

As they aligned with John Dewey's ideas continue

to be influential in the 21st century classrooms?

So we see um

responsive classroom

Maria Montessori Montessori

systems. And now let's talk about place based education.

Place based education began in earnest with the

formation of the Place based Education evaluation,

collaborative P E C P E C was formed with the goal

of using place based education models

for the purposes of professional development,

resulting, it is school improvements.

Place based education is grounded in the notion that we must use the resources,

issues

and values of the local communities in our classrooms first and foremost,

and that using the local community should be used as

a basis for context for learning at all levels.

The term place based education is used um with similar other terms,

like such as a community based learning service, learning,

sustainable education, project based learning.

Now, how do we see John Dewey's theories,

um

theory in this school?

Well,

John Dewey was a property of project

learning constructivism and community building in classroom.

The

ideologies of john do we are present in place based education

According to

in 2007,

education throws on the progressive idea

that education should be multidisciplinary nature

and learning activities should be authentic and seek to

extend the learning beyond the walls of the school.

One of the goals of place based education is

to have students effectively build relationship with each other,

which shows evidence of john Dewey's um theories.

Do we social learning theory in this case,

based on the goals of place based education

to string students relationships to the region,

the land, to create relationship between humans and their nature communities.

So we see as well a very practical influence of john Dewey's tourists in this school.

Finally,

let's talk about

Philosophy for Children,

PC for philosophy for Children is

an innovative teaching method that was initiated by

the American philosopher Matthew Lipman in the 90s,

PC four was designed to um elevate critical thinking skills in

close room and create a community of inquiry among students.

P four C creates a culture of critical thinking inquiry,

an open mind discussion in classrooms, especially in this set of 21st century P.

C four is a program that contains

especially reading passages and short stories designed

to introduce students to philosophical issues that

improve and promote their critical thinking skills,

resulting in improved higher level thinking

skills and increase literacy achievement.

Well, what happened with john Dewey's influence in this school,

I love, I love this by the way this phrase as well,

education is not preparation for life.

Education is life itself.

This is a skill that is certainly is crucial

to the goal of appropriate social learning in

ideal classroom as presented to by john Dewey

in classrooms that use P four C.

Teachers are not directing the conversation, but rather

are seen as skilled facilitators of the discussion taking place among students.

Once teachers had modeled and facilitated P. Four C.

Frequently enough, these discussions look more like student led conversation.

Kind of something that we're doing now.

Very much aligned with john Dewey's beliefs and tourists about schools

being an institution that should promote social and moral development.

P. C. Four is designed to foster mutual cooperation, trust, tolerance, right?

All these wonderful skills and 21st centuries collaboration, communication,

right, creativity,

critical thinking, of course.

So it's amazing the way in which all these theories as we said before,

are influenced these schools and many others, for sure. Philosophy for Children.

Place based education montessori system response in classrooms. Okay,

so let's just move forward to the conclusion of this student led discussion.

Let me put this phrase.

Maybe you hear it,

you read it. It's a classic

nos s a quasi nano's

Ganeshan numerous incident is

it's a beautiful phrase in latin um

of Bernard of Chartres,

we're standing

on the shoulders of giants.

It is right in controversy

in um the beginning of the second. Um

No, it was around story, it was around the 10th century if I'm not wrong.

Um

and, you know,

attributes this as I told you right, the outer ship of this to the teacher.

Bernard of Chartres, right?

This metaphor expresses a relationship of dependence of modern culture

with respect

to the patient

using the understanding gain by major thinkers who have

gone before in order to make intellectual progress.

That is we can see farther, not because of the intensity of our side

or the half of our body, but because we are lifted up by the greatest of giants,

who is an outstanding example of humanity of humility on

how to learn from the giant of our human history.

Nobody can be pretentious in showing full

and total ownership of wisdom and experience

teaches us in his educational philosophy proposal. A couple of beautiful lessons.

Number one

have a d respect and knowledge of the wisdom found in our history.

And again, this phrase

of Bernard of Chartres is an outstanding example.

The way in which you do, we did right. We are standing on the shoulder of Giants

second lesson

unveil the mystery of the anthropological reality of mankind.

Okay, in our history, sorry, there is a type of there,

what does that mean? This?

We have a precious D. N. A. For all times

and we have to take advantage in understanding

this anthropological mystery that is the same yesterday,

today and tomorrow

and we have to respect it. I love this phrase of Pope Francis.

Maybe it's a different topic,

but it's it's um I don't remember he attributes to a different author,

but practically he says in an interview,

God always

forgives

men

sometimes

nature never.

So it's very important to understand

the mystery of the anthropological structure,

right?

And in

in understanding it

we're gonna be capable

to provide

real correct resources and avenues for the

process of educational uh learning achievement experiences.

Third lesson that I see in john Dewey's

understand your present,

your reality,

your context,

it's not just an idealist ical uh theory or proposal.

That proposal has to be rooted and grounded

in the context of that particular community,

right?

Uh we saw a couple of lessons ago this framework of Olivia, Olivia, Olivia,

I don't remember, sorry, uh in that kind of uh hierarchy, right?

In curriculum building,

that has to be um

ah

put it in place and consider, well, again, well, building curriculum, right?

World society, culture, community school stakeholders, still classroom, right?

It was a very clear, simple but very clear framework, so understand your present,

your reality and your context respected,

right?

And finally, I found these

um from ST thomas Aquinas, he says in the very

teachers do nothing to their pupils except to put certain signs before them,

ST thomas Aquinas, in the

one important decision he does and Linus, the Linus is between the principal

and the instrumental causes

an instrumental cause is producing its effects only

and just only

because it is within the power

of the principal. Cause

this is precisely the last lesson that we find

in john Dewey,

we are just the facilitators,

we are just instrumental costs

in the learning process of our pupils.

So

thank you very much, my dear friends,

I hope that you enjoyed this uh student led discussion and I hope

that we're going to have the opportunity to keep talking about it.

Have a wonderful night. God bless you.

The influence of John Dewey's Philosophy in the 21st century

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