Dewey and Thorndike: The Persistence of Paradigms in Educational Scholarship
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John Dewey, philosophy of education, educational psychology, educational paradigms, analytic philosophy, educational scholarshipAbstract
Dewey and Thorndike are taken to be the fountain heads of the new academic fields of philosophy and psychology of education at the start of this century. Their general programs as scholars and applied researchers in education remain crucial in the ways philosophers and psychologists approach philosophy and psychology of education. Although the substantive ideas and even specific paradigms of research have changed radically in both fields during this century, philosophers and psychologists of education pursue general goals similar to those of Thorndike and Dewey. Nevertheless, the two fields have each gone their own way. The final argument calls attention to their similarities and claims that we have more to gain by merging their purposes than by keeping them apart.
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