Experience and Education (book)

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Experience and Education

1963 edition by Collier Books, NY
Author	John Dewey
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Education
Publisher	Kappa Delta Pi
Publication date	1938
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	91
ISBN	0-684-83828-1

Experience and Education is a short book written in 1938 by John Dewey, a pre-eminent educational theorist of the 20th century. It provides a concise and powerful analysis of education.^[1] In this and his other writings on education, Dewey continually emphasizes experience, experiment, purposeful learning, freedom, and other concepts of progressive education. Dewey argues that the quality of an educational experience is critical and stresses the importance of the social and interactive processes of learning.