Research Paper On John Dewey

I think it's a great idea to have students as stakeholders. In Democracy and Education, John Dewey calls active student engagement an essential factor of learning and education. "Making the individual a sharer or partner in the associated activity so that he feels its success as his success, its failure as his failure, is the completing step," Dewey writes (1916, p. 14). Though Dewey comments on the social environment, his philosophies can naturally extend to the school environment, which he calls the "chief agency" for social progress (p. 20). In this way of thinking, students are partners in the educational process, particularly in K-12 education reform in the U.S.

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