1. What is the relationship between education and democracy?
The understanding of how democracy and education intertwine first starts with learning what democracy actually means. Democracy as stated by Dewey is how we work within our community, how people come together and make decisions that affect the community as a whole. This requires education. Educated individuals are whom you should want to make the decisions needed to keep the community on the right path, but how do you gain information? We have the opportunity to learn and experience things everyday, the more we learn and experience the more educated we become. Thus the more education you have the more democratic you have lived, you have experienced and adjusted to your community, …show more content…
You had to educate yourself on the finer things in life. Knowing art, artists, authors, understanding text, how to act proper, and philosophies of that time. You could experience art, and literature but do you really understand it without education? It seems to be cultured you must intern be properly educated. (Sociocultural Studies in education-Richard A. Quantz chapter two, page 12)
5. According to Dewey, what is the difference between public and private? Why is this distinction important for educators?
Private according to Dewey is decisions made and actions that only affect the person who made them. Just as an example, as if you chose to buy something, and do not like what you bought. This only affects you, not a group of people. A private matter is just that, private.
On the other hand according to Dewey again, public is the affect of actions to a group of people not just one. Your actions, or words affect more than just yourself they affect the “public”. This decision can help or harm people, but the difference is private affects only yourself, and public affects a group of individuals. (Two excerpts from The Public and its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry by John Dewey (Gateway Books: Chicago, 1946). Edited by Richard Quantz, …show more content…
Why do perennialists think everyone should have the same education, at least through high school?
Perennialists do not believe in teaching children useless facts that they will not need later on in life, instead they believe in instilling critical thinking; teaching habits so that they will grow to educate themselves throughout life. They believe that everyone has the same person and that is to become “fully human”. Perennialists do believe that people may have to acquire this information in different ways or at different rates, however they believe that everyone in the end needs to learn the same information due to the fact we all live in the same society. Perennialists have three goals in what students need to be taught, these goals are: a standard acquisition of knowledge through instruction and textbooks, to develop intellectual skills through practice and coaching, and lastly critical thinking. All are believed to set a student up for a successful life of education, that they will be able to continue on their own after exiting the school. (Sociocultural Studies in education-Richard A. Quantz chapter six, page
The understanding of how democracy and education intertwine first starts with learning what democracy actually means. Democracy as stated by Dewey is how we work within our community, how people come together and make decisions that affect the community as a whole. This requires education. Educated individuals are whom you should want to make the decisions needed to keep the community on the right path, but how do you gain information? We have the opportunity to learn and experience things everyday, the more we learn and experience the more educated we become. Thus the more education you have the more democratic you have lived, you have experienced and adjusted to your community, …show more content…
You had to educate yourself on the finer things in life. Knowing art, artists, authors, understanding text, how to act proper, and philosophies of that time. You could experience art, and literature but do you really understand it without education? It seems to be cultured you must intern be properly educated. (Sociocultural Studies in education-Richard A. Quantz chapter two, page 12)
5. According to Dewey, what is the difference between public and private? Why is this distinction important for educators?
Private according to Dewey is decisions made and actions that only affect the person who made them. Just as an example, as if you chose to buy something, and do not like what you bought. This only affects you, not a group of people. A private matter is just that, private.
On the other hand according to Dewey again, public is the affect of actions to a group of people not just one. Your actions, or words affect more than just yourself they affect the “public”. This decision can help or harm people, but the difference is private affects only yourself, and public affects a group of individuals. (Two excerpts from The Public and its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry by John Dewey (Gateway Books: Chicago, 1946). Edited by Richard Quantz, …show more content…
Why do perennialists think everyone should have the same education, at least through high school?
Perennialists do not believe in teaching children useless facts that they will not need later on in life, instead they believe in instilling critical thinking; teaching habits so that they will grow to educate themselves throughout life. They believe that everyone has the same person and that is to become “fully human”. Perennialists do believe that people may have to acquire this information in different ways or at different rates, however they believe that everyone in the end needs to learn the same information due to the fact we all live in the same society. Perennialists have three goals in what students need to be taught, these goals are: a standard acquisition of knowledge through instruction and textbooks, to develop intellectual skills through practice and coaching, and lastly critical thinking. All are believed to set a student up for a successful life of education, that they will be able to continue on their own after exiting the school. (Sociocultural Studies in education-Richard A. Quantz chapter six, page