PPE Experimentalism-1st semester ppt.pdf

Experimentalism

1. Experimentalism believes that things are
constantly changing. It is based on the
view that reality is what works right now
and that goodness comes from group
decisions. As a result, schools exist to
discover and expand the society we live
in. Students study social experiences and
solve problems.

2. John Dewey
“If we teach today's students
as we taught yesterday's,
we rob them of
tomorrow.”

3. What Experimentalism is?
▪Experimentalism is associated with a very
broad but shallow curriculum. Many electives,
few required subjects.
▪Experimentalism is friendly to educational
research, and many new ideas come from it.

4. But…
▪Experimentalism can be wasteful of
resources.
▪It can also fail to follow through.

5. Experimentalist teachers like
to tinker or experiment.
They don’t like to leave things
the same all the time.
In experiencing something,
you are creating knowledge

6. What Experimentalists would teach?
▪ Everything — anything that had any
relation to students’ possible futures.
▪ Has been accused of trying to do the
home’s job.

7. Classroom Management
▪ Don’t like assertive discipline
▪ Prefer more constructivistic
approaches such as Discipline
with Dignity

8. Where Experimentalism shines?
▪When school has become all work and no
play.
▪When essentialism or perennialism have been
in power for so long, school programs have
become stagnant.
▪When traditional methods have become
ineffective.