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DEWEY ON SCHOOL CURRICULUM

Dewey advocates that broader curriculum programmes are needed and emphasis should be placed in total development of the personas being equally important as intellectual and academic. The teacher is a guide and director he steers the boat but the energy that people it must come from those who are learning. The teacher is engaged not simply in the training of individuals but in the formation of the proper social life in this way the teacher is always the prophet of the true god.

INTRODUCTION John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose thoughts have great influence in education and social reform .Dewey is best known for his writings on education but he also have written about many other topics including experience, logics, ethics, nature and art. Dewey defines education as the development of all those capacities in the individual which will enable him to control his environment and fulfil his possibilities. It is the process that begins with very birth of the child and goes on throughout the whole life. It is a process of which has two sides one is psychological and other is sociological.

THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF JOHN DEWEY ARE : The school and society. The school and tomorrow. The school and curriculum. DEWEY ON SCHOOL CURRICULUM Dewey advocates that broader curriculum programmes are needed and emphasis should be placed in total development of the personas being equally important as intellectual and academic. The teacher is a guide and director he steers the boat but the energy that people it must come from those who are learning. The teacher is engaged not simply in the training of individuals but in the formation of the proper social life in this way the teacher is always the prophet of the true god.