Adult Learning Theories Using Theorist Knowles & Dewey John Dewey: The later works 1938 "1939, Vol. 13 (pp. 1 "62). ... Over half a century ago, Dewey (1938) expressed the belief that all genuine education comes through experience (Dewey 1938). ... In Experience and Education (1939/1991), Dewey wrote, "the immediate and direct concern of an educator is with the situations in which interaction takes place" (Dewey 1938) Dewey writes of a "new education,"" wherein, rather than learning from "texts and teachers,"" students learn from experience and there is "active participation b...

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Introduction John Dewey (1859 - 1944) was convinced that to learn comes from the individual learner needs, and the learner should be involved in planning, executing, and evaluating activities. Dewey makes a comparison between traditional and progressive education. ... In Dewey's account education is not a preparation for some idealized future. ... He acts as a body of knowledge, with expertise in his content area as well as in pedagogy. ... I think that Dewey"s ideas are very interesting. ...

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Most literature on reflection is based on the works of philosopher, John Dewey (1933) who defined reflection in his early work as the "active, persistent and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in light of the grounds that support it" (p.7 as cited in Chetcuti, 1992, p.238). A key idea in Dewey's writings is the distinction made between passive 'routine' action and 'reflective' action (Killen, 2013). ... Many theories and models of teacher reflection are based on the philosophies of Dewey (1933). ... Central to Dewey's ...

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The prodigious minds of John Amos Comenius, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Froebel, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi contributed pioneering developments in early childhood education practice throughout the enlightenment (Elkind, 2010; Morgan, 1999). ... Deriving from the theories of John Dewey and John Piaget, Montessori program schools encourage children to have "freedom of experience" (Elkind, 2010; Morgan, 1999, p. 174). ... When the philosophical foundations were set by John Amos Comenius, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Froebel took these the embodied principl...

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