The Educational Thought of John Dewey

Abstract

   The current research aims to identify the biography of the famous American thinker John Dewey, investigate the factors influencing John Dewey’s thought, learn about John Dewey’s view of the study of values, identify John Dewey’s educational applications, and present and discuss the criticisms directed at Dewey’s educational philosophy. The research relied on the analytical approach to reach results. The research showed, through the results: the importance of helping the learner learn and developing his preparations to know how to learn. This is because knowledge in the modern era increases and multiplies rapidly, making it difficult to cover it in the school curricula, and increasing the focus on future life, anticipating the future and shaping it, as well as looking at the present, and that curricula should not It must be rigid and limited to specific knowledge or fixed teaching methods. Rather, it must be diverse in its topics, and it must consider the development and qualification of the teacher so that his role is not limited to recounting a huge amount of information without acquiring skills.