Reporter: -JANICE CORAÑES-ESPENIDA-

EXPERIMENTALISM
John Dewey

●a philosophical belief that the way to truth is through experiments

●associated with a very broad but shallow curriculum
●many electives but few subjects are required
●a friendly education research and many new ideas come from it
●questions during experiments:
What? When?
How? How come?
●mature thinking and the ideas to find out something new
●one of the youngest philosophy
●truth to be involved in real-life tasks
●concept of experience and thinking
●experiment is action performed
●”If a student learned to solve then he would be a better fir for living.”
●Education should be a study of social problems and how it is solved.
●Experiment anything to learn from it.
●Students shouldn’t be taught what to think but how to think.
- process
- problem solving
●exploratory critical thinking rather than explanatory
●gives important to action
●practical in every field from music to film and from literature to theatre
●makes use of the empirical data often gathered through surveys which probe the
intuitions of ordinary people
●development of skills
●Life is a laboratory, all individuals are experimenting.

Educational Contributions

A. All truths are help up to going inspection.

B. Responsive to existing conditions as well as changes in condition enabling students to
adapt to an ever changing society.
C. Teachers reflective and inquiry skills give students the opportunity to draw their own
conclusions after gathering all available evidence.

What experiments would teach in curriculum?

1. Everything that had any relation to students’ possible futures.

2. Problem solving
3. can be related to the interests of the students
4. activity-centered curriculum
5. selection of appropriate books and topics for a proper research
6. creation of new subjects
7. practical knowledge not theoretical knowledge

Methods

1. Brainstorming
2. Innovatory
3. Basic Research
4. Learn by doing
5. Project Method
6. Critical Thinking
7. Scientific Methods
Teacher’s Role

1. supreme guidance on innovation and ideas

2. liberal and equal
3. proper communication
4. teacher offers suggestions, questions and encourages throughout the course

A classroom looks like…..

1. instruction- facilitates rather than lecture

2. actively involved in the execution of the lesson
3. learning is done through a process of inquiry and discovery
4. lessons tailored to the interests of the students
5. collaboration and cooperation are encouraged
6. peer learning
provides exposure to different view points
7. applicable for all types of learners

Feedbacks

1. cannot be done in primary class

2. high budget experiments
3. needs time and patience

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