John Dewey’s Pragmatic Conceptions upon American Progressive Education and Ralph Waldo Emerson`s Transcendentalist Conceptions on American Literary Theory (A Comparative Approach)
John Dewey’s Pragmatic Conceptions upon American Progressive Education and Ralph Waldo Emerson`s Transcendentalist Conceptions on American Literary Theory (A Comparative Approach)

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents a comparative approach from the pragmatic and transcendentalist perspectives upon the American Progressive Education, respectively American Literary Theory, illustrated in John Dewey’s and Ralph Aldo Emerson`s writings, starting with the concept of experience, child - as the central part of both conceptions, continuing with individuality, rejection of the past, emphasizing the importance of action, activity, culture, and language in both cases.

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