Abstract

FAVERO, Altair Alberto  and  TONIETO, Carina. A reconstrução da experiência democrática: a democracia como credo pedagógico na filosofia de Dewey. Práxis Educativa [online]. 2012, vol.07, n.01, pp.179-197. ISSN 1809-4309.

The present article aims at reconstructing and analyzing the reasons that led the American educator John Dewey to elect democracy as the pedagogical belief of his educational philosophy. In order to do so, firstly our work will briefly retrace the origins of democracy at the Greek paideia, in order to analyze the reasons that led Dewey to choose democracy as the main reference of his pedagogical belief. Finally, we will discuss the democratic concept of education on Dewey’s work Democracy and Education and the reasons why the author uses science, philosophy, and education as instruments of reconstruction of the democracy.

Keywords : Democratic Experience; Pragmatism; Educational Policies; Philosophy.

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