On The Meaning of Learning: Reflections with Dewey

Authors

  • Thelma Barer-Stein Adult Education Consultant

Abstract

John Dewey's educative process and Barer-Stein's learning process offer two perspectives that may enhance the adult educator's glimpse of the true meaning of learning. The congruency of these two processes provides a strong basis for speculating that learning and educating may be differing aspects of the same process; that the learning of children and the learning of adults may be congruent; and finally, that a form of reflective thinking may be central to each and essential to an outcome of personally relevant meaning. Some implications of these speculations for adult educators are offered; other implications are left for individual reflection.

Résumé

Le processus éducationnel de John Dewey et le processus d'apprentissage de Barer-Stein offrent deux perspectives qui peuvent élargir la vision qu'a l'éducateur d'adultes du sens réel de l'apprentissage. La congruence de ces deux processus fournit une base solide à la spéculation sur l'idée que l'apprentissage et l'éducation peuvent être des aspects différents d'un même processus; que l'apprentissage chez les enfants et l'apprentissage chez les adultes peuvent être congruents; enfin, qu'une forme de pensée réfléchie peut être au centre de chacun d'eux et essentielle à l'atteinte d'un sens personnel pertinent. Quelques implications de ces spéculations sont offertes aux éducateurs d'adultes; les autres sont laissées à la reflexion personnelle.

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Published

1987-05-01

How to Cite

Barer-Stein, T. (1987). On The Meaning of Learning: Reflections with Dewey. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 1(1), 25–50. Retrieved from https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/cjsae/article/view/2961

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Vol 1, No 1(1987)

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