John Dewey and the Idea of Experimentalism

Hlebowitsh, Peter S.

doi:10.1353/eac.2006.0005

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“…This view is in line with Anderson (2007) who argued that there is a gap between education (including research) and practice. Therefore, for Biology to be relevant, effective and transformative, students need to be taught actionable knowledge as well as the skills required to translate knowledge into practice (Hlebowitsh, 2006).…”

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HIV/AIDS content knowledge and presentation strategies in biology for effective use in everyday life

Mnguni

Abrie

2012

Journal of Biological Education

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HIV/AIDS education should empower students to create knowledge using everyday life experiences. Such knowledge should then be used to construe experience and resolve social problems such as risk behaviour that leads to infection. In South Africa, attempts to reduce the spread of HIV include incorporating HIV/AIDS education in the Biology curriculum.However, there is a dearth of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of Biology-based HIV/AIDS education. The current study therefore aimed to identify strategies that can be used to enhance Biology students' understanding of HIV/AIDS and promote the use of this knowledge in their daily lives. A predominantly qualitative mixed-method approach with Delphi technique was used to gather and analyse data from secondary-school Biology students and teachers, as well as HIV/AIDS experts specializing in medicine and research. Findings show that most students rely on knowledge learnt in Biology to make decisions related to HIV/AIDS. Respondents suggested that HIV/AIDS education should be taught collaboratively by teachers, people living with HIV, and HIV/AIDS experts. Biology concepts and teaching strategies that could enhance students' understanding of HIV/AIDS, which are not part of the current Biology curriculum, were identified.

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HIV/AIDS content knowledge and presentation strategies in biology for effective use in everyday life

Mnguni

Abrie

2012

Journal of Biological Education

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“…The experimentalist literature, on the other hand, emphasizes benefits that are similar to the ones claimed by co‐production, most notably innovation (Stoker and John ; Ansell and Torfing ), increased democratic quality (Dorf and Sabel ; Ansell ), transparency (Sabel and Zeitlin ), and experiential growth (Hlebowitsh ). While using slightly different terms, these concepts refer to the same set of core benefits that we found in the literature on co‐production: increased quality and participation plus a higher level of trust and acceptance.…”

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“…Building not only on the literature on co‐production but also on the literature on (pragmatist) experimentalism (Dorf and Sabel ; Hlebowitsh ; Sabel and Zeitlin ; Ansell ; Ansell and Bartenberger ) we develop a comprehensive model of experimental co‐production that includes a list of both potential benefits and possible risks and costs. We evaluate this model of experimental co‐production by drawing on the case study of a major co‐production initiative in Vienna, Austria that included an experimental co‐testing phase.…”

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The Benefits and Risks of Experimental Co‐production: The Case of Urban Redesign in Vienna

Bartenberger

Sześciło

2015

Public Administration

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Building on the literature on co-production and the (pragmatist) literature on experimentalist policymaking we introduce and evaluate a novel form of co-production: experimental co-production. We propose a model of this specific form including a list of not only potential benefits but also possible risks and costs. We illustrate and examine this model of experimental co-production by drawing on the case study of a major urban planning initiative in Vienna, Austria that included an experimental co-testing phase. We find that while the expected benefits of experimental co-production were partly realized for the citizens involved, the city government faced major political costs.

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“…It should be remembered that Dewey's idea of experimentalism arose, in part, out of his work in education. His emphasis on democratic experimentalism was really about extending the culture of experimentation to everyday practice (Hlebowitsh 2006).…”

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What is a “Democratic Experiment”?

Ansell¹

2012

Contemp Pragmat

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This paper examines a key concept of democratic experimentalism, asking what is a "democratic experiment"? Starting with Donald Campbell's argument in favor of an experimenting society, the paper critically examines whether randomized controlled experiments should be the gold standard for democratic experimentalism. This tradition of experimentalism, it is argued, values the verification of knowledge above other experimental values. In this sense, it differs quite dramatically with the tradition of democratic experimentalism, which has little to say about verification. The paper then suggests that a more compatible conception of experimentalism might be found in recent work on design experiments. Design experiments lack the ambition of the verificationist paradigm to fully control variables, substituting instead a desire to iteratively improve design through real world application. The paper then goes on to examine the meaning of experimentation in the Pragmatist tradition. While some elements of the verificationist paradigm can be found in the writing of Charles Peirce, Dewey's treatment of experimentalism as a basis for modern democratic authority adopts a more general interpretation of experimentation as a form of cooperative inquiry. The final section of the paper examines the meaning and application of experimentalism in the area of adaptive management, a popular and well-studied approach to natural resource management. This analysis finds many of the same tensions in practice as described in 1 The reflections in this essay were prompted by conversations with Gerry Berk, though he cannot be held responsible for the positions that I ultimately take.

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John Dewey and the Idea of Experimentalism

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

HIV/AIDS content knowledge and presentation strategies in biology for effective use in everyday life

HIV/AIDS content knowledge and presentation strategies in biology for effective use in everyday life

The Benefits and Risks of Experimental Co‐production: The Case of Urban Redesign in Vienna

What is a “Democratic Experiment”?

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