Re: Problem Based Learning

nate (schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu)
Thu, 27 May 1999 22:43:20 -0500

I would suspect his apposition may has something to do with the so called
"Blomskii method" in Russia that Blomskii himself was apposed to (Education
Psychology by Vygotsky). Vygotsky refers to Blomskii argueing every
horriid practice including child labor was being argued as following the
Blomskii method. This was part of the progressive movement in Russia of
linking work with school. Dewey was very familiar with this interpretation
of his ideas and the comment probally related to it in some way.

----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Ryder <mryder who-is-at carbon.cudenver.edu>
To: <xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: Problem Based Learning

> Tim and others,
>
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Timothy Koschmann wrote:
>
> > As Lee Shulman reported last month
> > at AERA, Dewey was an outspoken opponent of apprenticeship learning, a
> > position that might be surprising to present-day educational
researchers
> > given the interest in forms of Legitimate Peripheral Participation and
our
> > view of Dewey as the 'learning-by-doing' guy.
>
> I would be interested in knowing the context of Dewey's opposition.
There
> is too much that is left unsaid here. Did Dewey indeed distrust the idea
> of learning by successive levels of participation from peripheral to
> central involvement, or might his opposition have been directed against
> the practice by some less-than-democratic craft unions of the time who
> tended to use apprenticeship as a means of discrimination and
> organizational control?
>
> Does anyone know if Lee Shulman's AERA paper is accessible online?
>
> Martin R.
>