The reconstruction in society without the distortion of human nature has been concerned on the history of education
John Dewey thinks that interest and effort is continuum, and the distinction between interest and effort is not in quality, but in deg...
The reconstruction in society without the distortion of human nature has been concerned on the history of education
John Dewey thinks that interest and effort is continuum, and the distinction between interest and effort is not in quality, but in degree. This view has such a logical weakness as identification of true in part with true in whole. Bruner, in the relationship of interest and effort, assumes implicitly the necessity.
Such a logical error is due to the conflicts between the causual point on interest and the normative point on effort.
This paper is an attempt to reconcile both concepts, something incompatible overtly, by analysis of language 「activity in education」. Activity is our will, participating and enthusi astic. Therefore we become made the change into ours. Activity is problematic in a sense of the present. In order to solve the problem we do somethng with it, those of our remember or understanding. Activity is to let us translate the change into progress. Activity can be standardized by the universe and the objective truth. In other words, our activity can be stated as "though……bettlement." This statement is evidence that there are the universe and objective standard.
Activity assumes the language of "puzzlement." Through this language we can discusse the authonomy and the voluntary in our activity. With such a analysis of activity we state 「if we had made up our mind, we shoulol have achieved」. We can reconcile both interest and effort by this statement. However, this statement has one difficult problem to have to solve in advance. It is the assumptions that "all is interesting and all be able to achieve. We can solve the problem by the possility of acitivity.
Through such analysis some issues under scrutiny remain that is the relationships of "individuality and structure," tendency and logic, and student's duty and teacher's duty.