The «Technological Culture» to Establish the Concept of Experience in John Dewey’s Thought. An Interpretation by Larry Hickman
Teodora Pezzano
Larry Hickman is a fundamental interpreter of John Dewey’s thought. His work has been a reference point for Deweyan Scholarship and also for the idea of a new possible paradigm of a «technological culture». In this paper, I will try to focus on the idea expressed in chapter 5 entitled Tecnoscience education for a lifelong curriculum in Hickman’s book Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture. Putting Pragmatism to Work (2001) applied to the contemporary problem of school.
In particular, Hickman’s idea of «technological culture», inspired by Dewey’s Thought, is essential for the concept of an inclusive model of school, which is a development of democratic school theorized by Dewey during his experience at Chicago University. In this perspective, I will analyze Hickman’s idea of «technological culture» applied to education, the centrality of education about this concept in two essays of young Dewey, the inclusive model of contemporary school, based on the relation between humanistic and digital culture, founded on the theory of «technological culture».
In my conclusions I will try to demonstrate that the concept of «technological culture» could be the matrix to project a possible didactics with AI in the contemporary school.
Keywords
John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Technological Culture, A.I. Didactics, Inclusive School.
