Dewey’s Dream: Has progressive education failed?

In 1938 John Dewey wrote “There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”

Has Dewey’s dream of child centered education failed and if so is the only alternative a focus on exams and a data obsessed model of factory schooling? Should schooling be done to or done with children? This panel includes:
Martin Robinson, Author, Trivium 21c 1&2
Toby French, Lead Practitioner, Torquay Academy
Stuart Lock, Headteacher, Cottenham Village College
Jane Manzone, Teacher, St Michael's Primary School
Laura McInerney, Editor of Schools Week
Filmed at Festival of Education 2016

Видео Dewey’s Dream: Has progressive education failed? канала Louise Hunter