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...both Dewey??s time and ours, this means liberation from material insecurity, from economic coercion, and from cultural repression so that each individual can fully benefit from the teeming cultural and economic resources that too few in our nation enjoy. Formal liberty—the legal constructs that conservatives subsume under the rhetoric of “equality of opportunity”—thus becomes opposed to what Dewey called “effective liberty of thought and action.” It is the latter that leads to an unchanging but endlessly adaptable ideal: granting...
...Meghan Houser. BU and Brown downed the women’s team, which finished 2-2 on the day. For the men, sophomore Robert Kenney finished 10th, leading the Crimson in 27:18 on an eight-kilometer course. The next five finishers were all freshmen, including Matthew Dewey??who finished 11th in 27:19—19th-place Daniel Emont, and 20th-place Mark Hirschboek. Brown and Marist each finished ahead of the men, leaving them...
...wrote that the social context of an education should be evident in “both the methods and subject-matter of instruction,” that the two should be consistent and mutually reinforcing. This was as much a practical position as a philosophical one, deriving from both Dewey??s work as a scholar and from his experience as a teacher. He believed deeply in the social creation and function of knowledge, but he also believed something more pedestrian and empirical, that human beings simply learn best when they learn together...
...evolution of elementary and secondary schools in America over the last century largely reflects the influence of Dewey??s ideas. Schools, particularly in the lower grades, have moved steadily away from a hub-and-spoke model of education, where the only significant relationship in a classroom is between the teacher and each individual student. Today primary and secondary students participate far more actively in each other’s educations, working in small groups and holding discussions while the teacher acts as a facilitator in addition to the traditional role of direct instructor...
...proposal, which includes an “Ethical Life” distribution requirement, attempts to bring philosophy into practice. Even more boldly, the report calls for an “initiative in activity-based learning” to be implemented in the future. A striking similarity to Dewey??s plan.Committee Co-Chair and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons does not believe that these echoes of Dewey were intentional. “I don’t believe that Dewey...[was] ever mentioned in our discussions,” she writes in an e-mail.Other committee members agree...