Dewey argued, participation in school and society is crucial to learning and In democracy.
It was interesting to see this happen right in front of me or the fact that I was apart this empowering education. For a teacher to let her/his students take control of the classroom or lesson is amazing. I believe student learn so more when being able to speak freely, because your learning from others peers of the same groups, so you're learning from their point of view or experiences. In a classroom settings, my teacher I volunteer for lets her class help one another with problems. She lets them teach each other different ways of solving problems.
Dewey empathized participation as the point at which democracy and
learning meet in the classroom. For him, participation was an educational
and political means for students to gain knowledge and to develop
as citizens. Only by active learning could students develop
scientific method and democracy habits rather than becoming passive
pupils waiting to he told what things mean and what to do.
Seeing this take place in a classroom where a teacher have deadlines and standards that the school demands. Seeing, my teacher supervise these lessons where the students are the teachers, teaching them a lesson, or testing them can be very stressing when there's paper works that needs to meet, grades, reviews, and with datelines.
