Hi,
Here are your study questions for the remaining chapters of Democracy and Education. Please email your answers to dpreston.learning@gmail.com by 5:00 P.D.T., Saturday, September 15.
Chapter 14
1. How does Dewey describe the relationship between subject content and student learning? Is curricular rigor/structure necessary? Is it enough? What constitutes a successful outcome?
2. Argue for or against Dewey's notion that: "Democracy cannot flourish where the chief influences in selecting subject matter of instruction are utilitarian ends narrowly conceived for the masses, and, for the higher education of the few, the traditions of a specialized cultivated class." Do you think any of these things are happening in education? If so, to what extent are they influencing the course of our democracy?
Chapter 15
3. How can play be considered beneficial to learning? Under what circumstances? What is the relationship between play and work?
4.What is the difference between education and occupational training?
5. What would Dewey say about agriculture classes in high school?
Chapter 16
6. Explain the significance of meaning.
7. If Dewey were appearing at a board meeting near you, what would he have to say about interdisciplinary education?
8. How can studying the facts of a given discipline help us understand the world around us?
Chapter 17
9. Why does logical thinking pose a challenge in the classroom where the teacher is not a content expert?
10. How does Dewey define and describe the relationship between science and social progress? Naturalism and humanism?
Chapter 18
11. Often terms like values and imagination spark debate in public education. Why are they so important in Dewey's view?
12. How/why would Dewey argue for funding a fine arts program?
Chapter 19
13. Why does Dewey suggest that out of all the "segregations of educational values" the schism between culture and utility is the most critical?
14. According to Dewey what is the main problem in a democratic society?
Chapter 20
15. Can we learn by doing?
Chapter 21
16. What are the four reasons Dewey gives for the separation of nature/man and literature/physical sciences?
17. How can educators design experiences for students that reintegrate these curricula?
Chapter 22
18. Is the United States in 2007 a custom-based society or a progressive society? Substantiate your answer with specific examples of how individualism is treated in a learning community (a school, district, or day care, e.g.).
Chapter 23 (no questions)
Chapter 24
19. What is philosophy?
Chapter 25
20. How are our ideas of what constitutes knowledge influenced by social divisions?
Chapter 26
21. How can public education provide a moral education that is equally informed by and beneficial to everyone in the community, regardless of class, race, ethnicity, gender, age, or religion?
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