... see the connections between their classroom activities and what was going on in the world outside the school" (pp. 415). Dewey's View of the Environment In Dewey's lexicon, situation is a synonym for milieu or environment, the social medium by means of which education takes place - its background, or surroundings. He was convinced that the only "true education" is that which is ... ...

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