The Purpose of Education According to Dewey

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The Purpose of Education According to Dewey
According to Dewey, education aims to promote social competence while integrating children into the democratic community. He believes education is worthless if it does not equip a child with social competence. Education develops civic skills that boost a person’s ability to participate in civil society and political life. According to Sikandar (2015), Dewey views education as a way of social reform and serving the democratic process by correcting economic evils and obtaining political ends necessary to build a society. Therefore, education for Dewey is a perfect instrument for social and economic reform. In this context, education acts as an interactive social and economic breakthrough process. To Dewey, school is a social institution that should be organized to reflect the outer world. The school acts as a promoter of social change and progress...