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Theories of Bildung and Growth pp 261–279Cite as

Experiencing Growth as a Natural Phenomenon

John Dewey’s Philosophy and the Bildung Tradition

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Dewey belongs to the small company of philosophers who granted education a major role in their philosophical argumentation. For Dewey (1916/MW pp. 9, 338), education was not merely an institution to transmit skills, ideas, and attitudes, but also a laboratory “in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested”. Moreover, he argued that education offers a way for individuals to find their true calling in social service (1897/EW pp. 5, 95).

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Väkevä, L. (2012). Experiencing Growth as a Natural Phenomenon. In: Theories of Bildung and Growth. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-031-6_17

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