教育実踐における指導理念の妥当性
デューイの実験主義からみた
1962 年 1962 巻 7 号 p. 31-43
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1962 年 1962 巻 7 号 p. 31-43
Guiding theories precede practice and their truthfulness is esteemed of great importance. Moreover, since practice is guided by such theories and at the same time is a process in which they are realized, a unity between theory and resultant consequence is antecedently expected. To say, however, that this unity is both sought and expected is completely different from saying that it exists already in a realized state. Precisely because the experimentalist looks on this desire [for unity] as a creative element, he seeks with all thoroughness for a conviction in the truthfulness of his principle and tries to find a rational foundation for it. He cannot, however, rest satisfied with certainty based on conceptual knowledge. He esteems of great importance the process in which he strives to insure concrete values. The validity of a theory does not rest on what precedes it but is found in and through the very practice that threatens to alter the principle itself. Herein lies the meaning of verification through consequences.
