Reflections on the conception of “good teaching” from the philosophical ideas of John Dewey

Abstract

The article pretends a reflection on teaching from the perspective of the philosophy of education proposed by John Dewey. Specifically, it is interesting to recover those Deweyan statements about the aims of education, its nature and the criteria used for the identification of good purposes, to reflect on the idea of “good teaching practices” that the normative dimension postulates of the Didactics. This analytical exercise is considered valuable to delve into categories and themes that philosophy has developed, in this case in the philosophical and pedagogical thought of John Dewey, to then rethink issues that specifically make the current normative dimension of Didactics expresses –among other multiple edges– from the definition of “good teaching practices”.