![]() ![]() In doing so, I show that, despite their criticisms of Dewey, whether explicit (Peters) or implicit (Freire), these influential philosophers, representing quite different traditions in philosophy of education were in substantial agreement with him. ![]() In this article, I explore Dewey’s new conception of education and compare it with the apparently opposed views of R. Teachers at his Laboratory School in Chicago developed the new modes of practice (1896–1903). Dewey introduced his new conceptions in The Child and the Curriculum and later and more fully in Democracy and Education. John Dewey adopted a child-centered point of view to illuminate aspects of education he believed teacher-centered educators were neglecting, but he did so self-consciously and self-critically, because he also believed that ‘a new order of conceptions leading to new modes of practice’ was needed. ![]()
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