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Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, , - entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment. [...]
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En 1881 se trasladó a Baltimore y se matriculó en la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Le influyó especialmente el ambiente hegeliano de la universidad. La huella de Hegel se refleja en tres rasgos que le influyeron poderosamente: el gusto por la esquematización lógica, el interés por las cuestiones sociales y psicológicas, y la atribución de una raíz común a lo objetivo y a lo subjetivo, al hombre y a la naturaleza. En 1884 obtuvo el doctorado por una tesis sobre Kant. También fue influenciado por ideas evolucionistas derivadas de Darwin. Se casó con una antigua alumna llamada Alice Chipman, la cual contribuyó más que nadie a interesar a Dewey en los temas educativos y colaboró estrechamente con él. En 1894 se trasladó a la Universidad de Chicago, en donde fraguó su definitivo interés por la educación. En 1900 asume la enseñanza del curso de Pedagogía en la Universidad de Nueva York, que estrenaba su Escuela de Pedagogía; el año 1904 renunció a su puesto como profesor. Su último destino como docente sería la Universidad de Columbia. Con 87 años se casó por segunda vez y adoptó a dos niños. Fue un hombre de acción, que aspiraba a la unificación de pensamiento y acción, de teoría y práctica. Defendió la igualdad de la mujer, incluyendo el derecho al voto. Fue cofundador, en 1929, de la Liga para una acción política independiente, fomentó el sindicalismo docente, alentó la ayuda a los intelectuales exiliados de los regímenes totalitarios. Dewey tuvo una gran influencia en el desarrollo del progresismo pedagógico, desempeñando un papel protagonista que abarca desde finales del XIX hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial. Fue el pedagogo más original, renombrado e influyente de los Estados Unidos y uno de los educadores más perspicaces y geniales de la época contemporánea, influyendo en el curso de tres generaciones. El padre de la psicología progresista murió el 1 de junio de 1952 con 92 años de edad.
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- PublisherGRIN Verlag
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 364024589X
- ISBN 13 9783640245895
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- Number of pages396
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