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Progressive Ideals and Experimental Higher Education: The Example of John Dewey and Black Mountain College

Progressive Ideals and Experimental Higher Education: The Example of John Dewey and Black... Universities, like families and like nations, live only as they are continually reborn, and rebirth means constant new endeavor of thought and action, and these mean an ever renewed process of change. ^ apparent at many of its distinctive sibling institutions, Black Mountain--through direct contact with John Dewey--offers a particularly vivid example of the transfer of those ideals to experimental college settings. W h e n pragmatic p h i l o s o p h y f o u n d its v o i c e in education during the years just before and after 1900, John Dewey met widespread agreement with his conviction that experience and individuality could be channeled toward learning that was more meaningful than the usual fare in American schools. However, Dewey generally reserved his "progressive" education thoughts and discourse for elementary and secondary schooling. He found higher education an unlikely candidate for change, fuming, "I have never been able to feel much optimism regarding the possibilities of 'higher' education when it is built upon warped and weak foundation." ^ Nevertheless, as the progressive movement inspired by Dewey and others moved on to classroom experimentation and professional networking, Dewey's ideals of individual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Education and Culture Purdue University Press

Progressive Ideals and Experimental Higher Education: The Example of John Dewey and Black Mountain College

Education and Culture , Volume 14 (1) – Oct 5, 1997
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Universities, like families and like nations, live only as they are continually reborn, and rebirth means constant new endeavor of thought and action, and these mean an ever renewed process of change. ^ apparent at many of its distinctive sibling institutions, Black Mountain--through direct contact with John Dewey--offers a particularly vivid example of the transfer of those ideals to experimental college settings. W h e n pragmatic p h i l o s o p h y f o u n d its v o i c e in education during the years just before and after 1900, John Dewey met widespread agreement with his conviction that experience and individuality could be channeled toward learning that was more meaningful than the usual fare in American schools. However, Dewey generally reserved his "progressive" education thoughts and discourse for elementary and secondary schooling. He found higher education an unlikely candidate for change, fuming, "I have never been able to feel much optimism regarding the possibilities of 'higher' education when it is built upon warped and weak foundation." ^ Nevertheless, as the progressive movement inspired by Dewey and others moved on to classroom experimentation and professional networking, Dewey's ideals of individual

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Published: Oct 5, 1997

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