JoinTeaching with Dewey on My Shoulder: John Dewey's ideas about interaction and continuity contribute to the teaching and learning of science
When John Dewey’s name appears somewhere, many people imagine a librarian inventing an organizing system for shelving library books, but this is a different Dewey. Here the author is talking about John Dewey (1859–1952), the educator whose ideas were tested in a laboratory school he helped establish at the University of Chicago. This article describes how his ideas make the teaching and learning of science a pleasure—not a chore.