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Title: On the Uniqueness of 'Good' in PBL: Reading Dewey's 'Human Nature and Conduct'
Language: English
Authors: Jakob Egholm Feldt
Source: Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education. 2024 12(2):8-15.
Availability: Aalborg University Press. Skjernvej 4A, 2.sal, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark. Web site: http://journals.aau.dk/index.php/pbl
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 8
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
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Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Educational Quality, Program Implementation, Outcome Based Education, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Methods, Educational Practices
ISSN: 2246-0918
Abstract: In this short piece, I will dwell on two passages from John Dewey's book "Human Nature and Conduct" (1922): the section entitled "Deliberation and Calculation" and the following section "The Uniqueness of Good." In these passages, Dewey explains the crucial differences between utilitarianism and his own philosophy, and he elucidates how and why what is "good" happens only once: "In quality, the good is never twice alike. It never copies itself. It is new every morning, fresh every evening" (p. 146). I wish to dwell on these passages because they, as I see it, represent a major challenge to the utilitarian impulse in normativizing PBL and related approaches for the sake of learning or for some societal good. Dewey's problem-based philosophy, while central to PBL, is also a critical resource for critiques of how we implement PBL programs and practice PBL pedagogies. In these passages, Dewey reveals his belief in the educational event as a unique situation, a happening, which purposefully imagines an outcome but in a fundamentally different way than what we today call outcomes-directed or evidence-based education.
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