Dewey believed that human beings learn through a ‘hands-on’ approach This places Dewey in the educational philosophy of pragmatism Pragmatists believe that reality must be experienced From Dewey’s educational point of view, this means that students must interact with their environment in order to adapt and lear

In Chapter Three, Dewey (1938) presents two significant principles: continuity (that all experiences are carried forward and influence future experiences) (p 35) and interaction (both the objective and internal conditions of an experience) (p 42)

Schools, according to Dewey, are not just places where we learn facts and numbers, but also places where we learn how to live In other words, the point is not just to learn a certain set of skills (though that helps as well) but rather to realize one’s full potential, and use what you’ve learned for the greater goo

While it is important that voters can reject their rulers and so control them to some extent, democracy is not simply a form of government defined by the distribution of the franchise or majority rule Rather what matters, as Dewey puts it, is the way that the majority is forme

Dewey also said of the ideal conditions of democracy and education: A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic

Behaviorism focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment This learning theory states that behaviors are learned from the environment, and says that innate or inherited factors have very little influence on behavio

Behaviorism can also be thought of as a form of classroom management An example of behaviorism is when teachers reward their class or certain students with a party or special treat at the end of the week for good behavior throughout the week The same concept is used with punishments

The three stages of behaviorism are Watsonian Behaviorism (, Neobehaviorism (, and Sociobehaviorism (

Skinner ( was a leading American psychologist, Harvard professor and proponent of the behaviourist theory of learning in which learning is a process of ‘conditioning’ in an environment of stimulus, reward and punishment An important process in human behavior is attributed … to ‘reward and punishment’