Dewey is the greatest educational reformer in the 20th century. His educational thoughts have had a far-reaching impact on American education and world education. In view of the disadvantages of traditional schools, such as teacher-centered, textbook-centered, and classroom-centered, he put forward the educational thoughts of children-centered, activity-centered, and experience-centered.
2. Dewey's theory is the representative of modern educational theory. His theory is different from the "old three-centered theory" of classroom center, teaching material center and teacher center in traditional education. He put forward the "new three-centered theory" of student center, activity center and experience center.
3. The specific content of the new three centers of Dewey is to replace traditional classroom teaching with realistic and life-oriented teaching, to replace book knowledge with children's personal experience, and to replace teachers' leadership with students' active activities.
He believes that education should be child-centered, respect children's nature, advocate "learning by doing", and think that the knowledge that children gain through attending classes and reading books instead of activities is illusory. In the teaching process, Dewey put forward five stages of the process, namely difficulty, problem, hypothesis, verification and conclusion, according to the cognitive development of students in learning by doing, and put forward the theory of aimless education.
Dewey's related knowledge
1, John Dewey (John Dewey, 1 85910/October 20th-1June 9521), a famous American philosopher, educator, psychologist, pragmatist and functionalist.
2. If Peirce founded the pragmatic method and william james established the pragmatic truth view, then Dewey built the pragmatic theory building. His works cover science, art, religious ethics, politics, education, sociology, history and economics, making pragmatism a unique cultural phenomenon in the United States.
3. In his academic career, john dewey taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and Columbia University for a long time, and then retired at Columbia University. Dewey praised the democratic system all his life and emphasized the complementarity between science and democracy. Democratic thought is the theme of many of his works.
At the same time, he is considered as one of the greatest educational reformers in the 20th century. While teaching at the University of Chicago, he also founded the Experimental School of the University of Chicago as the experimental base of his own educational theory, and his wife served as the principal of the school.