I'm probably just biased because I really like BGE and felt it, with some of his other works, were really formative to me for who I am today.
Dewey was an early 20th century philosopher of education that you have to read if you're becoming a teacher in the US. I don't remember too much but nothing of his stood out to me as iconoclastic, just that students shouldn't be passive subject in classrooms, that their interactivity with not only the subject but what the studied was key to their growth, and that a good education isn't just like, a training program, but teaches students to both inquire and solve their own inquiries. Idk generally pretty uncontroversial stuff. I didn't read the specific book mentioned in the list, so maybe it's a radical departure from his other pedagogical writings.
I actually understand BGE. It's dumb, but I get it.
This is the first I've even heard of Dewey.
I'm probably just biased because I really like BGE and felt it, with some of his other works, were really formative to me for who I am today.
Dewey was an early 20th century philosopher of education that you have to read if you're becoming a teacher in the US. I don't remember too much but nothing of his stood out to me as iconoclastic, just that students shouldn't be passive subject in classrooms, that their interactivity with not only the subject but what the studied was key to their growth, and that a good education isn't just like, a training program, but teaches students to both inquire and solve their own inquiries. Idk generally pretty uncontroversial stuff. I didn't read the specific book mentioned in the list, so maybe it's a radical departure from his other pedagogical writings.