 | William Andrew Paringer - 1990 - 228 sider
...1969-1984 (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986). 91. "Inquiry," as Dewey defined it in his Logic, "is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole" (104-5). 92. Dewey compactly spells out the progressive pedagogy in Experience and Education, but his... | |
 | Larry A. Hickman - 1990 - 255 sider
...In one of his rare outright definitions, Dewey defined inquiry in terms of such control: "Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole" (LW12:108; LTI:104-105; emphasis in original). Further, he specified that '"controlled or directed'... | |
 | George Allan - 1990 - 344 sider
...all levels the role of thought is the same, however: to effect an outcome. Inquiry, says Dewey, "is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole" [LTI 104-5]. When guided by intelligence, when "directed" rather than being left "uncontrolled," the... | |
 | Brian G. Caraher - 2010 - 293 sider
...qualification. Dewey lays down his most succinct definition of "inquiry" in the following sentence: Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole.13 (Dewey s italics) The antecedent condition for the initiation of an inquiry, then, is an indeterminate... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1992 - 748 sider
...most philosophers, a search for truth; it is an independent activity, defined as follows: 'Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole.' (104) I cannot but think that this definition does not adequately express Dr Dewey's meaning, since... | |
 | Deane W. Curtin, Lisa M. Heldke - 1992 - 412 sider
...I think cooking is a kind of inquiry. I take my cue in part from John Dewey, who defines inquiry as "the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole" (1938, 104-5). Such a definition certainly encompasses cooking. of degree, not kind: "One is the pushing,... | |
 | J. E. Tiles, Jim E. Tiles - 1992 - 408 sider
...world, so doubting where humanizing is, not free-floating, but context-bound; and harmony is produced by "the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole."2* Where doubting is not a formulation "of an initial distinctive existential indeterminateness,"... | |
 | John Patrick Diggins - 1995 - 534 sider
...changing. But Dewey's logic of inquiry aimed to show why science can serve our purposes: "Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole."35 Dewey's faith that humankind can achieve the status of a "unified whole" by making indeterminate... | |
 | Sigmund Krancberg - 1994 - 192 sider
...inquiry can best be defined as the "directed transformation of an indeterminate situation into which one that is so determinate in its constituent distinctions...elements of the original situation into a unified whole."33 This kind of logical and practical merger of thought and action leads to the progressive... | |
 | James Campbell - 1995 - 328 sider
...as the deliberate creation of an orderly and unified situation out of a problematic one: "Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole" (LW 1 2:108). 38 The notion of "situation" that Dewey has in mind here is "not a single object or event... | |
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Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate situation into one that is so determinate in its constituent distinctions and relations as to convert the elements of the original situation into a unified whole. 
