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29.059 - Dewey's Influence on Teaching and Learning and the Educative Experience

Fri, April 28, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 217 C

Session Type: Paper Session

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Dewey's writing on teaching and learning remain influential in education today. In this session the importance of living curriculum, experiential learning, pedagogically meaningful practice, and teacher-based inquiry are examined. Dewey's belief that the teacher plays an instrumental and critically important role in the educative experience are acknowledged in the papers for this session.

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