Name : Chrizia May A.

Santiago
Course: Master of Education in Social Studies

MODULE 4: Poverty, Citizenship, and Political Life, and Human Solidarity

Evaluate: John Dewey’s Democracy and Education and the Problem of Education in the
Philippines.

What questions do you have after reading the chosen article?

1. How Dewey’s philosophy impact on modern education and it’s contribution for curriculum
design?
2. What is the critical appraisal of philosophy and practice of education in both private and
public schools uphold by Dewey?
3. What are best philosophy of education applicable to provide effective teaching towards 21st
century learners? Does Dewey theory impact for better education in the present?
4. How some teachers give best learning to the students if they always rely on online references
(e.g. YouTube discussions) without considering its own understanding and cannot comprehend
well all the lessons?
5. How pragmatist are schools in the classroom? How could possibly inquiry-based learning be
integrated into the classroom using John Dewey's philosophy of learning?

What new idea or perspective do you want to reflect on more [elaborate]?

Dewey's approach to the study of education placed a high value on involvement in

democratic classroom processes and meaningful learning activities. Progressive education
argued that pupils needed to be invested in what they were learning, in contrast to prior styles of
teaching that depended on authoritarianism and rote learning. According to Dewey, instruction
should be applicable to students' daily life. He believed that practical life skills development and
hands-on learning were essential components of children's education. Some Dewey detractors
believed that under his approach, students wouldn't learn the fundamentals of academics.
Others perceived the teacher's authority and the sense of order in the classroom would vanish.
 I also learned in Dewey’s idea about learning by doing as a hands-on approach on learning
students interact with their environment in order to adopt and learn. Even though it may seem
that we are persistent excessively on a truism, the necessity of education and learning for the
survival of a community is evident. But there is merit for this emphasis since it helps us move
away from an excessively formal and scholastic conception of education. Schools do play a
significant role in the transfer of information that shapes young people's dispositions, but they
are only one approach and, in comparison to other organizations, a very superficial one. The
only way we can be sure to put the scholastic methods in their proper context is once we have
understood the need for more fundamental and enduring modes of instruction.