デューイの教育論的視座から見た野外教育の現代的意義

－ 民主主義的態度の育成と総体としての成長の可能性 －

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The two-fold objectives of this study are first, to elucidate John Dewey’s educational theory and examine its implications for outdoor education; and second, to examine the contemporary significance of outdoor education grounded in Dewey's model of progressive education. This study specifically focuses on three aspects of Dewey's thought: the educational purpose, the concept of experience, and the notion of human growth.

Dewey's pragmatic educational theory aims for social change through the application of its own definition of democracy. According to Dewey, human growth is an evolving process of accumulating experiences through personal interactions with the environment. For such experiences to be generated, occupations labeled manual creation activities must be undertaken by learners. Further, Dewey’s model aims to foster democratic attitudes and ideas through interpersonal occupational collaborations.

In brief, the analysis accomplished by the study allows the following inferences to be drawn: 1) scholars should reevaluate the immense potential of outdoor education to impart knowledge through the extension of diurnal activities and should reexamine its promise of encouraging the holistic growth of children; 2) the present-day social and educational significance of outdoor education vests in the inculcation of democratic attitudes and ideas in children; and 3) the social significance of outdoor education is growing because it can provide children who now encounter more indirect or secondary experiences the opportunity to accumulate direct or primary experiences.