Dewey ‘경험의 이론’에 대한 교육철학적 고찰 - Dewey 교육철학의 ‘경험’ 개념에 대한 Dewey의 핵심적 개념들 간의 관계분석 연구

Educational Considerations to Dewey"s Conception of Experience

&nbsp;&nbsp;Recently, the implications and values of the &quot;experience&quot; are revaluated in the pluralism and the postmodernism. A purpose of this study is to define newly the educational implication of Dewey&quot;s &quot;experience&quot; concept by analyze the relationship between the concept of experience and some important subjects in Dewey&quot;s texts. For the relationship-analysis of the concept &quot;experience&quot;, I gave attention to four conception-learning, thought, human being, and nature- in Dewey&quot;s texts. And this study supposes that the relationship-analysis between the concept &quot;experience&quot; and the four educational subjects will expand the practical implications and the postmodern horizons of the education.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;First, the relationship-analysis between the learning and experience, the experience is the essential condition for the embodiment of the learning. An experience has two aspects of the active and passive. And an experience has two elements of the meaning and the change. The learning is defined as the active and passive process of human experience which grants meanings to the changes such as the growth/the development.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Second, the relationship-analysis between the thought and experience, the thought is a kind of explanation for the harmony of active and passive aspects of experience, that is the activity and the result of the experience. The thought is defined as a reflective experience, or a evolutive experience.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Third, the relationship-analysis between the human being and experience, the experience is a kind of mechanism for unity of the mind and body. The construction of meaning in the mind is involved in the experience of the body.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Forth, the relationship-analysis between the nature and experience, the experience is the solution for the distortion of dualism. The experience is the recovery and the cure to the separation of human being and nature.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In conclusion, an experience restores the natural form of life from the articulated educational subjects, and gives a clue of understanding for a unity of education.