John Dewey’s theory of knowledge and the teacher’s place in the educational process
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Education, Experience, Human essence, Theory and practiceAbstract
This article aims to unveil the teacher’s place in the educational process from the theoretical reflections of John Dewey (1859-1952), presenting the author’s theory of knowledge, his conception of the human essence, and the relationship between theory and practice in the educational and social context. It is a theoretical review was conducted through a situated, non-systematic bibliographic research (COOPER, 1998). It was identified in the guiding principles of this philosopher that the teacher’s place in an educational process, where teaching is inclusive and the school is active, is to help the student’s conduct according to the complexity of society, seeking to enable him to develop awareness and acquire conditions to overcome the challenges presented in social life. The teacher is concerned with the challenging role of simultaneously offering help to the student by presenting him with the reality of the surrounding world, and allowing him to seek to walk independently, building his own being. These characteristics configure the demand for a teacher who no longer maintains a fundamentally authoritarian posture, who transmits the knowledge through an intellectualist class, controlling the learning of specific procedures by the students, who guides and moderates the processes in the classroom, and who be a supporter of school activities and the democratic spirit.
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