Experimentalism

Experience anything to learn it

Education should be a study ofsocial problems and how it is solved

Students shouldn’t be taught what to think,But HOW to think

Experimentalism believes that things are constantly changing. It is based on the view that reality is what works right now and that goodness comes from group decisions. As a result, schools exist to discover and expand the society we live in. Students study social experiences and solve problems.

John Dewey“If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's,

we rob them of tomorrow.”

What Experimentalism is? Experimentalism is associated with a very broad but shallow curriculum. Many electives, few required subjects. Experimentalism is friendly to educational research, and many new ideas come from it.

But…

Experimentalism can be wasteful of resources.

It can also fail to follow through.

Experimentalist teachers like to tinker or experiment.They don’t like to

leave things the same all the time.

In experiencing something, you are creating knowledge

What Experimentalists would teach? Everything — anything that had any relation to students’ possible futures. Has been accused of trying to do the home’s job.

Classroom Management

Don’t like assertive discipline

Prefer more constructivistic approaches such as Discipline with Dignity

Where Experimentalism shines?

When school has become all work and no play.

When essentialism or perennialism have been in power for so long, school programs have become stagnant.

When traditional methods have become ineffective.

ENDPresentors:

Demafiles, Cheryl AnneTalaboc, Clarice Anne

II-6 AB/BSE Literature (English)