Aug 26, 2019
This is the fifth installment in a series of podcasts about the role of experience in education. In this entry, Dr. Ben Wood Johnson examines the notion of experience. He delineates the nuance John Dewey makes between continuity and interaction. The argument is that the individual must be allowed to experience the world...
Aug 19, 2019
This is the forth installment in a series of entries about education. In this Podcast, Dr. Ben Wood Johnson talks about John Dewey’s approach to experience in education. The Podcast examines the degree to which experience is a feature of a traditional approach to education, as opposed to a trademark of a...
Aug 12, 2019
In this Podcast, Dr. Ben Wood Johnson talks about education from the perspective of a contemporary philosopher. He examines the dichotomy between a traditional view of education and a progressive approach. He relates John Dewey’s concerns as to the usefulness of a progressive approach without taking into account...
Aug 5, 2019
In this Podcast, Dr. Ben Wood Johnson talks about education a little further. He explores the concept as a means of coercion. Dr. Johnson argues that education is not supposed to teach the person how to be in society. Rather, it should teach the person how to learn about the world. Education should teach the person how...
