A century later: John Dewey’s Democracy and Education anticipated Visible Learning in teacher education

Abstract

Although, in his Democracy and Education (2010[1916]), Dewey does not explicitly
talk about teacher education, said book remains a relevant reflection
on how people learn and on how teaching should be undertaken. In
particular, it is important to understand how one of Dewey’s concepts—
”education [as] reconstruction of experience”—could be meaningfully applied
to teacher education. In this context, another interesting concept is
the one expressed in the opening chapter: «the educative process is a continuous
process of growth, having as its aim at every stage an added capacity
of growth» (2010[1916], p. 73).