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Harriet K. Cuffaro offers a detailed account of how the educational philosophy of John Dewey may be translated into the everyday life of the classroom. Particular attention is given to "learning from experience", a fundamental concept in early education?, and the complexities involved in experiential learning.

Acknowledgments

xi

A Note on Citations and Readings

xiii

A Teacher's Perspective

1

(13)

The Personal I

2

(1)

The Public We

3

(4)

Encountering Dewey

7

(1)

Looking at Teachers and Teaching

8

(3)

Searching for Meaning and Coherence

11

(3)

The Social Individual: Achieving Self in Context

14

(16)

Potential and Capacity

15

(3)

Habit

18

(6)

Communication and Community

24

(6)

The Social Individual in an Early Childhood Setting

30

(15)

Creating the Physical Environment

32

(1)

Materials: Constructing Knowledge of Self and World

33

(6)

Time

39

(6)

Children and the Curriculum

45

(10)

Creating Order in Traffic and Within Self

47

(4)

Reflecting on the Experience

51

(1)

The Moral in the Classroom

52

(3)

Experience: Variety and Continuity

55

(13)

Responding to Quality and Context

56

(3)

Aesthetic Experiencing

59

(2)

Inquiry and the Indeterminate Situation

61

(7)

Experiencing Self and World in an Early Childhood Setting

68

(17)

Criteria for Evaluating Educative Experiences

68

(4)

Implications for Curriculum Planning and Teaching

72

(6)

Experience and Play

78

(2)

Play, Materials, and Experience

80

(5)

The Drama of Island Life

85

(13)

The Birth of a Hurricane

85

(9)

Reflecting on the Experience

94

(1)

Imagination

95

(3)

Challenge and Commitment

98

(15)

The Problematic

100

(2)

Experiencing the Challenge of Democracy

102

(11)

Bibliography

113

(6)

Writings by Dewey

113

(1)

Edited Collections of Dewey Writings

114

(1)

Writings About Dewey

114

(1)

References and Further Readings

115

(4)

Index

119

(4)

About the Author

123

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