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This document discusses the educational philosophies of John Dewey and John Locke. [1] John Dewey believed that education should be experiential and relevant to real life, not passive learning confined to the classroom. He felt learners should help design curriculum based on prior knowledge and problem-solving. [2] John Locke asserted that the human mind starts blank and can be molded by education. He emphasized teaching children reasoning skills over just presenting information, and believed education should focus on subjects useful in everyday life. The document examines some of their core ideas about the purpose and methods of education.

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Dewey and Locke by ALM

This document discusses the educational philosophies of John Dewey and John Locke. [1] John Dewey believed that education should be experiential and relevant to real life, not passive learning confined to the classroom. He felt learners should help design curriculum based on prior knowledge and problem-solving. [2] John Locke asserted that the human mind starts blank and can be molded by education. He emphasized teaching children reasoning skills over just presenting information, and believed education should focus on subjects useful in everyday life. The document examines some of their core ideas about the purpose and methods of education.

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Republic of the Philippines

DR. EMILIO B. ESPINOSA SR. MEMORIAL STATE COLLEGE


OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
(Masbate State College)
http://www.debesmscat.edu.ph
Mandaon, Masbate
GRADUATE SCHOOL

DEWEY AND LOCKE


Almarie L. Fuentes
MaEd major in ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Historical and Philo-Social Foundations of Education Student

JOHN DEWEY
John Dewey was a progressive educational theorist. He believed that education is not
necessarily just meant to be based in the classroom but is meant for the education of life in the
real world. He really wanted to get education that was relevant into the outside world and he was
very much against what we would consider now to be passive learning. He believed in learning
without really an intent on knowledge acquisition. He was very much what we would consider a
pragmatist, someone who values education as the product of your effort and your experience and
how well you can actually apply your knowledge for content mastery within a specific learning
goal.
Dewey thought that the learners should actually focus on designing curriculum based on
prior knowledge and following guideline somewhat to his standardize this approach. He wanted
also to include problem-solving techniques with a specific outcome in mind because as we all
know, if your steps of learning and he very much wanted to allow for the exploration of
knowledge acquisition, different concepts, problem solving in order to test the hypothesis of the
problem of the learning.

JOHN LOCKE
John Locke asserts that humans are born with no pre-existing ideas about the world and that
the human mind can be molded through proper education. He presents his views on the field of
education and how these thoughts present children as humans capable of reasoning. Many of his
ideas concerning education can be applied to all classes and genders. The first of these ideas is
that children should not only have a healthy mind but healthy body as well. This theory is even
put to use in today’s classrooms, the former recess and physical education. Locke second idea is
that a virtue and reasoning, he emphasizes that the main object of education is teaching children
how to reason rather than merely presenting and processing information. This emphasis on
reasoning is taught today as critical thinking skills. Locke also believed that is the educators’
responsibility to instruct children and developing habits to be virtues. His third ideas focuses on
the structure of academic curriculum, Locke believed that the subjects children should be
educated in should be useful in everyday life.

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