Dewey and the models of the kindergarten
Teodora Pezzano
This paper intends to reflect on the educational problem related to childhood. The analysis of this wide and complicated question will take place through the Dewey’s interpretation on the philosophy of education of Fröebel and Montessori, authors who have promoted the centrality of the child, defending childhood’ rights. Through this critical analysis will be reflected on the deweyan ideas about the school of childhood. A perspective that emerges in virtue of the criticism that the American author makes in some passages of his writings.
Keywords
Education, child development, experience.
