Richard Enfield & Richard PonzioUniversity of California, Davis

FROM DEWEY TO DOING:

How Experiential Education Theory can

be used as a Best Education Practice

Prepared for theBEPs for Water Outreach Professional Symposium

University of Wisconsin, MadisonJune 3, 2004

DEWEY’S CONTINUITY & INTERACTION (1938)

PRINCIPLE OF CONTINUITY

PRINCIPLE OF INTERACTION

…every experience both takes up something from those which have gone before & modifies in some way the quality of those which come after.

…an individual’s experience results from the interaction between self & the environment. There are “objective” environmental factors & subjective internal factors.

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INTERACTION

PASTEXPERIENCE

PASTEXPERIENCE

PASTEXPERIENCE

FUTUREEXPERIENCE

OBJECTIVEENVIRONMENTAL

FACTORS

SUBJECTIVEINTERNALFACTORS

DEWEY’S CONTINUITY & INTERACTION IN 4-H

FUTUREEXPERIENCE

PRESENTEXPERIENCE

© 2004 RICHARD P. ENFIELD

PRINCIPLEOF

CONTINUITY

PRINCIPLEOF

INTERACTION

WATERSHEDCURRICULUM

STREAMMONITORING

WATERSHED MODEL

REGIONAL 4-HPRESENTATION

TIME TO PREPARE

FAMILY SUPPORT

EXCITED ABOUT

EXPERIENCES

HAVE AN IMPACT

DEWEY’S CONTINUITY & INTERACTION IN 4-H

OTHEREXPERIENCE

COUNTY 4-HPRESENTATION

© 2004 RICHARD P. ENFIELD

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CONTINUITY

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INTERACTION

WATERSHEDCURRICULUM

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WATERSHED MODEL

COUNTY 4-HPRESENTATION

JUDGES’COMMENTS

TIMEFRAME

FEELINGS

INTERESTS

KNOWLEDGE

DEWEY’S CONTINUITY & INTERACTION IN 4-H

SCHOOLASSEMBLY ?

REGIONAL 4-HPRESENTATION

© 2004 RICHARD P. ENFIELD

LEARNER

INSTRUCTION CONTENT

CONTINUITY INTERACTION

LEARNER

AGE

INTEREST

SKILLS

LEARNING PREFERENCES

ETC…

INSTRUCTION

DIRECT

GROUPS

MEDIA

CROSS-AGE

EXPERIENTIAL

SCHOOL

COMMUNITY

LEARNING CYCLE

CONTENT

WATER QUALITY

WATERSHED RESTORATION

HISTORY OF WATERSHED LAND

EXAMPLES

WATER USE

ETC…

LEARNER

INSTRUCTION CONTENT

CONTINUITY INTERACTION

RICHARD P. ENFIELD

4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

rpenfield@ucdavis.edu

RICHARD PONZIO

4-H SPECIALIST

UC DAVIS

rcponzio@ucdavis.edu

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